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Email PageInside / Outisde
July 10, 2007- August 10, 2007
Jack Beal, Joan Brown, Amer Kobaslija, Andrew Lenaghan, James Valerio, James Barsness, Roy De Forest, Amer Kobaslija, Andrew Lenaghan, Joyce Treiman, James Valerio, Robert Arneson
George Adams Gallery
525 W 26th St Andrew Lenaghan Planet of the apes - Self Portrait II (2007) |  Amer Kobaslija Laugh Now Cry Later (2007) |  |
During July and August, George Adams Gallery is pleased to present Inside / Outisde, a two-part group exhibition in the main gallery. Part one, Inside, surveys the representation of interior spaces and includes paintings by Jack Beal, Joan Brown, Amer Kobaslija, Andrew Lenaghan, and James Valerio. Part two, Outside, deals with landscapes and cityscapes and features paintings by James Barsness, Roy De Forest, Amer Kobaslija, Andrew Lenaghan, Joyce Treiman, and James Valerio, as well as a drawing and sculpture by Robert Arneson.
In addition to the general theme of interiors, the works included in the exhibition Inside make parallel inquiries into mark making, self-portraiture, and iconography. For example, both Jim Valerio and Amer Kobaslija in Studio Exit (2003) and Janitoršs Closet (2007), respectively, depict a mopped floor, with the mop becoming an analogy for the painteršs brush and the abstract swirls a reference to paint itself. The skewed perspective in Kobaslijašs claustrophobic interior also resonates in Joan Brownšs intersecting planes of patterned floor and figure in Woman Waiting in a Theater Lobby (1975), while Andrew Lenaghanšs life-size self-portrait Planet of the Apes II (2007) and Jack Bealšs Self-Portrait with Rudbeckias and Daylillies (1988), make use of mirrors as compositional devices.
Part II, Outside, includes Jim Barsness, Roy De Forest and Joyce Treiman in addition to several of the artists from the first exhibition. Somewhat uncharacteristically, Kobaslija and Valerio are each represented by a cityscape, while Lenaghan and Treiman portray the beauty of the seashore. In contrast, Arneson, Barsness, and De Forest present a more fantastic view of the suburban and rural life.
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