Three Way Tie for Last
June 28, 2006- August 4, 2006
508 W 26th St
Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts is also pleased to announce the debut exhibition of Three Way Tie for Last by
Carl Ferrero, which will be shown simultaneously in the adjoining Project Room. It will contain an ongoing series of watercolors which integrate text and images deriving from a variety of sources: men-seeking-men personal ads, old photographs, pornography, album covers, song lyrics, and the artist’s imagination. These elements are dissected and reorganized like anagrams which convey new meanings, but evoke their former forms like ghosts. The result is political and psychological works that express Ferrero’s poetic sensibility. His painting is not concerned with the specific reality of objects, but the objects’ status as symbols charged with affective value. This value is located in the sudden shock of both the brutally familiar and the repressed components of the self which we rarely confront. The work is intended to catch the subject in process, and reveal how its judgments and desires rise and fall in the emotional landscapes Ferrero has created.
Carl James Ferrero (b. 1969, Vineland, NJ) is a New York-based artist who has been exhibiting his work for the past five years. Upcoming and recent exhibitions include “The Mind/Body Problem” at Artists Space, “Aporia” at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Gallery, “Repeat After Me” at Flux Factory, “American Seven” at WORKS/San Jose and “The Metaphysics of Youth” (Fuori Uso 2006) in Pescara, Italy. His writing has appeared in Rutgers University Magazine, his illustrations will appear in TinHouse magazine, and he illustrated Mike Albo’s novel, The Underminer, published by Bloomsbury in 2005. Ferrero received his MFA from Brooklyn College/CUNY, where he studied with Vito Acconci, Patricia Cronin and Elizabeth Murray.
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New York (Chelsea)
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