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September 7, 2006 - October 7, 2006
Reception: September 7, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Valaire Van Slyck
Monya Rowe
526 W 26th StMonya Rowe Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of paintings by New York-based artist Valaire Van Slyck.
Titled All Fall Down - a nod to the 14th-century nursery rhyme about the Black Plague - the exhibition focuses on the devastating aftermath of America’s post-Industrial age. Now, as then, the urban landscape is devoid of figurative elements. Instead, Van Slyck’s provocative paintings depict the remnants of human presence: dilapidated houses, abandoned factories, empty streets and burnt-out cars. Once-glorious Victorian homes are condemned, lurking in the shadows of freeways, replete with soaring scrap heaps, fields of tires and other objects left behind.
In these depopulated compositions, Van Slyck simultaneously explores the landscape’s beauty and banality. The “city as graveyard” is approached from a visceral perspective and rendered in unexpected and often startling hues. Meanwhile, lush, glossy surfaces are combined to commemorate the cast-offs of an increasingly disposable culture.
Valaire Van Slyck received a BFA from Michigan State University and an MA from New York University. He has recently exhibited at Capsule Gallery in New York and Geoffrey Young Gallery in Great Barrington, MA. He lives and works in New York City.
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