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Email PageTake Only Pictures
March 8, 2006- April 14, 2006
Xana Kudrjavcev-DeMilner
Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts
508 W 26th St Xana Kudrjavcev-DeMilner Men at Work |
Kudrjavcev-DeMilner’s work depicts an idealized natural world populated and destabilized by artificial elements. In her collages, synthetic structures, severed from their original context, acquire a new abstract identity, while in turn alter their new environment. The collage, on first glance, may appear to be an interior or a landscape, but the work is ultimately about the symbiotic and shifting relationship between its multiple parts. A carpet, cut from a photo of a room, becomes a simplified, shadowed surface, yet still bears negative spaces left from table legs and other interior elements that have been cut away. In the completed collage, these negative spaces frame and reveal the images beneath, often shaping the unlikeliest of materials into the suggestion of absent forms.
The paintings in the exhibition also reflect Kudrjavcev-DeMilner’s interests in space and form, using abstraction to create characters, problems and stories. In their joining of the geometric and organic, and in the occasional inclusion of more explicit narrative elements, the paintings open a dialog between the formal and the symbolic. Like the collages, they disorient the viewer in a way that invites questions, and suggest that there exist hidden qualities—underlying meanings and movements—in the world around us.
Kudrjavcev-DeMilner grew up in Philadelphia. She received her BA from Swarthmore College and her MFA from Yale University in 2003. She moved to Berlin in 2003 with a Graduate Research Scholarship from the DAAD.
Take Only Pictures will be accompanied by a selection of work from three other Berlin-based artists: Miriam Böhm, Katarina Burin and Claudia Wieser. Their photography, drawing, and collage combinations are linked by the artists’ shared interest in surface, structure and the appropriated image. In conjunction with Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, Architecture Information, 526 West 26th St. Suite 422 will present contemporary collage by Martabel Wasserman, Eric Kidhardt and Donna Vojtasek.
In our second gallery, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts is proud to present the opening of The Butcher’s Dog, historical renderings on bar- napkins by Scottish artist Patrick Shaw. In an effort to illustrate the societal need for artists, outcasts and even criminals, Shaw exemplifies the positive and negative consequences of individual thought, behavior and action, by rendering pictures of odd figures and situations from the past.
Opening Reception: March 8, 2006 6-8 p.m.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show
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