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Email PageHelen Sadler 2006
February 25, 2006- April 1, 2006
Helen Sadler
Elizabeth Dee
545 W 20th StIn Gallery 2, Helen Sadler presents a suite of new paintings, executed in her customary egg tempera on wood.
Using the medium of an early Renaissance master, she makes small panels that depict moments of intense experience. Appropriating images from film and video, the artist captures people, young women in particular, at instants of ecstatic abandon, profound grief, or emotional crisis. She chooses figures from events in recent history or from the era of her childhood, the 1960s and ‘70s. The subjects of her recent works range from close-ups of fans at rock concerts—Woodstock in 1969 and Wattstax in 1972—to news footage of the arrests of the young female accomplices of Charles Manson, to mourners at the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Painting with a delicate looseness and transparent washes of color, as if egg tempera were watercolor, Sadler catalogues nuances of the ineffable, played across the faces of her subjects. Despite their diminutive scale, her panels compel our attention with their concentrated passion.
This is Sadler's first one-person exhibition at Elizabeth Dee. She was included in The Sublime Is (Still) Now at the gallery in 2004, and in Ciao! Manhattan: Recent Painting from New York at Perugi Artecontemporanea in Padua that same year, and in Girls on Film at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 2003. Solo shows of her work have been held at Team in New York and at Biagiotti in Florence, Italy. The artist lives and works in New York.
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