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Email PageThe Sunny Pessimist Takes Cover From the Imperceptible
April 5, 2007- May 5, 2007
Reception: April 5, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Michael Bernstein
Hudson Franklin
508 W 26th StHudson Franklin is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new work by Michael Bernstein, on view from April 5 to May 5, 2007.
Themes of shelter and security once again dominate Michael Bernstein's work. In this exhibition, he has taken the visual vocabulary of his ink-on-paper drawings -- which have included bunkers, sandbags, trenches, and odd structures -- and extended it into imaginative free-standing forms.
New drawings on Mylar give a striking new setting for Bernsteinšs vision of bunker security. Also two-dimensional are handmade, brilliantly colored quilts of abstract designs that Bernstein has created using discount-store tarps.
Made in the same bright colors, sandbags form three-dimensional barriers that provide metaphysical protection to the viewer. Mimicking the sandbags, nylon laundry bags with a Stars and Stripes design are filled with washed-and-folded clothing to create a barricade that hints at the current fluctuations of American national pride. And a sculpture constructed of wooden dowels resembles a log cabin built by a rustic Modernist.
Michael Bernstein received an M.F.A. in 1998 from Pratt Institute. He was awarded a New York Foundation for the Arts grant in 2006, and his work was recently included in "ITER-ITER-ATION" at NURTUREart in Brooklyn, N.Y. This is his second solo exhibition with Hudson Franklin.
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