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October 19, 2006- November 14, 2006
Reception: October 19, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Susan Crile
Michael Steinberg Fine Art
526 W 26th St Susan Crile Exodus (2002) |
In 1991, Susan Crile drove through the burning oil fields of Kuwait, to experience and photograph the eco-terrorism inflicted on the country by Saddam Hussein's retreating army. Returning to her New York studio, Crile transformed the photographs she had taken into paintings in which, according to Elizabeth Strick, she “documents the violations of nature but is equally drawn by the demonic beauty of the fires themselves.” This series of paintings were exhibited widely after debuting in a show curated by Jeremy Strick at the St. Louis Art Museum. The most monumental painting in the group, The Fire Next Time, (1992), has never before been exhibited in New York City.
The current show also marks the first time that Crile's powerfully drawn responses to the attack on the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, can be seen. As in the oil fire paintings, these large-scale drawings explore the boundaries that the artist perceives “between beauty and horror-between fascination and horror.”
Recent History coincides with another important exhibition of Susan Crile's work, Abu Ghraib/Abuse of Power, which may be seen in New York until October 21st at The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery at Hunter College. A traveling version of this show is in preparation.
Susan Crile, born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1942, received her B.A. in art from Bennington College in Vermont (1965). In 1982 and 1989-1990 she received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and in 1990 she was a resident in painting at the American Academy in Rome. She lives in New York City, where she's been a professor at Hunter College since 1983. Her work is in many public collections including the Brooklyn Museum, Carnegie Institute Museum of Art, Pittsburgh; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Phillips Collection, Washington; and many others.
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