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Email PageBisbee-Durlam and Wastrom
September 7, 2006- October 14, 2006
Reception: September 9, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Megan Bisbee-Durlam, Erika Wastrom
Lohin Geduld Gallery
531 W 25th St Megan Bisbee-Durlam Musty Air Builds the House Like Bricks (2006) |  Erika Wastrom Labscape (2006) |  Erika Wastrom Untitled (2006) |
 Megan Bisbee-Durlam They All Cried Clorox from Motion Sickness (2006) |
MEGAN BISBEE-DURLAM
One is submerged in a world of riotous color and form while looking at a painting by Megan Bisbee-Durlam. Colored balls float through space, fleshy tubes and striped hoses wriggle and nest, and sgraffito drawings diagram unknown creatures. In this carnival atmosphere of serious play Bisbee-Durlam explores everything from the growth sequencing of plants to laundry hanging in a Barcelona street.
Like Kandinsky, Bisbee-Durlam has a synesthetic reaction to her surroundings. Color is felt and heard as much as seen. Her physical and psychological worlds meld, forming a simultaneous picture of both mental and spacial experience. "Organic storytelling" is the way Bisbee-Durlam refers to these works.
They are stories of heroic struggle and silly asides, an ever-shifting tableaux of emotional and physical phenomena played out in technicolor.
ERIKA WASTROM
The images in Erika Wastrom’s paintings seem to be the result of a clash between theoretical and commercial architectural forces. Condo units hang in the sky, their bases ripped open or never finished, wires and cables flapping in the breeze. Boxy houses suspended on tenuous footings suggest overzealous development plans gone bankrupt. Computer and LED screens, curiously blank, add an eerie technological atmosphere to the facades.
Wastrom is fascinated by institutional and public spaces. She finds poetry in the nondescript space between things. In the spaces we usually choose to ignore Wastrom detects and reveals the conduit and hardware essential to modern civilization. Her architectural follies are continually being constructed and de-constructed. She uses the painting process as a metaphor for the often illogical, chaotic and dynamic sprawl of housing development and technology. Wastrom finds beauty and pathos in the calamity and flux of progress.
Megan Bisbee-Durlam received her BFA from The School of Art & Design at Alfred University and studied abroad at the Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence. Her exhibitions include the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa FL, Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, Hallwalls, Buffalo NY, Covivant Gallery, Tampa FL, and Finn Gallery, Greenwich CT.
Erika Wastrom received her BFA from The School of Art & Design at Alfred University and studied abroad at the Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence. Her exhibitions include the Lohin Geduld Gallery, New York, and Kathleen Cullen Gallery, New York. She was awarded a residency at the "Painting’s Edge" Residency Idyllwild Art Center, Idyllwild CA.
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