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REAR/VIEW

November 30, 2007- January 5, 2008

Reception: November 30, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Brian Bress, Melissa Brown, Matthew Chambers, Holly Coulis, Kim Dorland, Andrew Guenther, Simon Hughes, Jeremy Kost, Russell Nachman, David Quadrini, Jesse Finley Reed

Freight + Volume

542 W 24th St

Set deep within the so-called new Gilded Age of wealth and excess washing over the Americas, a sense of angst and uncertainty lurks behind the gleaming facades of prosperity, hinting at the true nature of life in the early 21st-century. For, although the art world has exploded in terms of commercial sales and record-breaking auction results, artists working within--or in many cases, against--that system have continued to lay the facts bare: we are now living in an age rife with war, jeopardized by constantly fluctuating stock markets destablilized by an ever-growing mortgage crisis, and pocked with ever-increasing violence on our urban and rural streets. Simply stated, these are disquieting times, and artists, prone as they are to keep their finger on the pulse of society-at-large, are creating works that forego the brilliance of the art world's wealth, presenting us instead with the gritty and eye-opening reality of the grime that lies beneath.

The artists included in REAR/VIEW look not only at the detritus-ridden landscapes of the poverty-ridden segments of life for their subject matter, but also at the role of the human body in these turbulent times. They seem to look back at an age of innocence, to a time in their lives when life was worth living. A strong sense of consternation is present throughout the works on display, whether it be a painting of a suburban landscape that might represent hell, or a movie starlet applying her make-up in the rearview mirror of a car before she completely melts down. The juxtaposition of bodies and spaces presented in REAR/VIEW will entice the viewer to enter into the fray, to question the status quo and attempt to find a way out of the quandry of life in the Americas in the early 21st-century. The artists in the exhibition, hailing from across Canada and both coasts of the United States, bring to New York a survey of reactions against the new Golden Age, frought as it is with a pervasive fear that the good times, if they ever existed for the masses in the first place, are soon to be a thing of the past.

Books and DVDs related to artists in this show

Location   Gallery Freight + Volume Address 542 W 24th St New York (Chelsea) NY, 10011 United States Phone 212-989-8700 Fax 212-989-8708 Hours Tue-Sat 11-6

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