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Email PageTerrain
June 3, 2006- July 1, 2006
Reception: June 3, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Moon Beom, Kwang-Young Chun, Sarah Leahy, Augustus Goertz, Shigeru Oyatani, Antonio Petracca, Louis Renzoni, Diane Samuels, Pat Badt, Scott Sherk, E.E. Smith, Susan Wides
Kim Foster
529 W 20th St
We are pleased to present Terrain an exhibiton of twelve gallery artists inspired by a liberal interpretation of the concept of landscape. The exhibition offers a fresh look at one of the older motifs in art.
Moon Beom creates hybrid works that preserve traditional landscape drawing while at the same time experimenting with Western techniques and style.
Kwang-Young Chun's paintings consist of hundreds of triangles wrapped in century-old handmade mulberry paper, grouped tightly together in obsessively close proximity, coalescing into a composition dense with association to natural phenomena.
Sarah Leahy explores a kind of image making that looks back to traditional landscape, while using up-to-the-minute materials, permanent black ink on a clear sheet of sanded plexiglass.
Augustus Goertz employs an earthy palette that exploits a wide variety of effects, from celestial mists of color to an impasto applied so thickly it almost qualifies as relief.
Shigeru Oyatani uses dashes of color to represent light and define space. Whether he is hovering in front of skyscrapers or floating above cities, he depicts the metropolis as a spectacle.
Antonio Petracca uses landscape in a way that restricts or warps the "panoramic" field. Images are chopped or "cropped" to absurdity confounding the viewers attempt to see the whole or to identify the place.
Louis Renzoni's voyeuristic paintings depict strangers alone in a landscape caught in a moment of intoxicating bliss or paranoiac anxiety.
Diane Samuels' Land Squares metaphorically enact private moments from the artist's life and the places that she has visited that have historical significance.
Painter Pat Badt in collaboration with sculptor Scott Sherk aim to subdue the audience into quiet deliberation and meditation through painting and sound inspired by the western redwoods.
E.E. Smith's photographs correspond to the celestial: the heavens surround the viewer with representations of the moon at various stages.
Jim Toia creates scale-less topographies through the release of millions of expelled mushroom spores that echo the cosmological in their structure.
Susan Wides explores the play between the exterior world and the subjective one. Inspired by the Hudson River school, certain objects and details in her photographs loom into consciousness with sharpened clarity as others fade into dreamy abstraction.
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