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February 28, 2008- April 19, 2008
Reception: February 28, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Rosy Keyser
Peter Blum Gallery
526 W 29th StPeter Blum is very pleased to announce the exhibition Rosy Keyser: Rivers Burn and Run Backward, opening on February 28th at Peter Blum Chelsea, 526 West 29th Street, New York. This will be Rosy Keyser’s first solo exhibition in New York.
Rivers Burn and Run Backward comprises a group of paintings and a selection of works on paper. Keyser energizes what she refers to as “neo brut” paintings with, in her case, a blend of rational and emotional notions. Her work unifies oppositions and negotiates various centers of gravity. The paintings juxtapose humble elements with big gestures, and make references to pop culture, to spiritual narratives, and to art historical concepts such as “visionary painting” and “assemblage." Keyser’s approach stems from a strong conviction that the natural world is instable and impermanent. All the parts of her paintings are constantly in play, guided by a relationship of cause and effect.
The physical act of painting is important in Keyser’s work. Her process-driven abstractions tell the story of their own making and present improbable combinations of materials. For example, Keyser coalesces mica (silicate minerals), a material known for its fragile and reflective qualities, with rough sawdust. She also contrasts dye paint that has been fully absorbed into the canvas with layers of glossy enamel. This play in the tension between pictorial surfaces and applied materials enables Keyser to create simultaneously complex and straightforward layers of expressive abstractions.
Rosy Keyser was born in 1974 in Baltimore, MD and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Keyser received her BFA from Cornell University and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The past summer Keyser’s work was shown in the exhibition Stubborn Materials at Peter Blum Chelsea. Other exhibitions include group shows at the Track House, Chicago; Jessica Murray Projects, New York; The Pond, Chicago; Reenactment of Dürer’s ‘A Large Piece of Turf’ in Marble, CO; Baltimore, MD; Medusa, NY; and Læso, Denmark.
Art Reviews of Rivers Burn and Run Backwards
| New York Times April 11, 2008 | Roberta Smith | "Rosy Keyser’s first show of paintings and works on paper has a giddy, disheveled sprawl. Each work negotiates a slightly different truce between paint and something else: mica, sawdust or obsidian; twine may be added. Ms. Keyser is especially adept with sawdust, used straight, painted over or mixed with paint to contrast granular and smooth areas of color. Oddly rumpled or puckered, the canvas surfaces are almost objects in their own right...." |
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