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Email PageVibrant Pastures
January 29, 2008- February 23, 2008
Reception: January 31, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Martha Nilsson Edelheit
SOHO20 Chelsea Gallery
511 W 25th StSOHO20 Chelsea is pleased to announce Vibrant Pastures, an exhibition of Martha Nilsson Edelheit’s most recent series of paintings.
Edelheit’s recent series of paintings depict life size sheep. The sheep, often looking directly at the viewer are friendly, independent, particular individuals. They are surrounded by and enmeshed in a grid. The painting’s surface, made from chicken wire covered in Paper Mache, forms a geometric hexagonal mosaic: a random pattern of intense color evoking imaginary landscapes.
In earlier landscapes the groups of sheep cluster, rest or graze. Their solid images are replicated in wire, ink, acrylic drawings, and in shadows cast from the wire constructions of their shapes. The dialogue between wire line, ink line, cast shadow and solid form is intense, poetic, and sometimes political. Works like: And the Lion Lies Down with the Lamb, and Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing, were painted after President Bush was elected. The pieces further allude to Hicks’ Peaceable Kingdom, a pictorial dream of reconciled differences peacefully inhabiting the same space, and Henri Rousseau’s ferocious, Jungle Dreams.
Martha Nilsson Edelheit lives and works in a rural environment outside of Stockholm, Sweden. This is her fourth solo exhibition at SOHO20 Chelsea, where she continues to work with the theme that has absorbed her since 1994: the sheep that graze outside her studio.
RECEPTIONS:
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 5-7 PM SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 3-7 PM
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