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Email PageHello Sunday
December 17, 2005- January 28, 2006
Katherine Bernhardt, Benjamin Butler, Maureen Cavanaugh, Jennifer Coates, Matthew Fisher, Portia Hein, Ridley Howard, David Humphrey, Brad Kahlhamer, Keith Mayerson, Dave Miko, Brad Phillips, Bettina Sellmann
Sixtyseven
547 W 27th StCurated by: Holly Coulis
Sixtyseven is pleased to announce the opening of Hello Sunday, a group show curated by artist Holly Coulis. The works included in Hello Sunday encapsulate a romantic notion of painting: an ease regarding process, a personal, and sometimes quirky vision, a love of painting.
All works frame, in some way, a desire for transport, an altered experience, a romantic excursion. Though similar to traditional ideas of transcendence in art, the drift in this work has a more casual spirituality infused with humor, even at it’s darkest. All of these artists exhibit an obvious love for the medium. Part of the impetus for the making of the work seems to come from a need to make, a deep affinity and involvement with materials. But for the most part, the work seems to begin as a personal quest for imagery.
Keith Mayerson's version of Charlie Brown and Snoopy is charming in its painterly dreaminess and turns its subjects into legitimate painted heroes. Maureen Cavanaugh's lively painting, “Buns”, is emotionally expansive and filled with a girlish, dreamy charm. Portia Hein and Benjamin Butler have included landscapes, which are intimately crafted, and serene. There is something honest and direct presented in each of their works, a romantic poetic found in the balance between touch and subject, an interior understanding of some external world. Romantic and dark, the work presented by Bettina Sellmann and Brad Phillips seems to draw from literature and a contemporary sense of the gothic, a melodramatic intersection of life and death. Ridley Howard's touchingly painted image “Lying Down” is reminiscent of nouveau vague cinema in its stillness and beauty. David Humphrey’s "Country Tiger" is a tragic, psychological melt. His lonesome subject is a grand example of his improvisational and uncanny use of imagery. In Brad Kahlhamer's two small paintings, his fluid use of paint is clear, as is his empathy for his subject. The grandiosity he imparts to his protagonists is always rich and moving. Matthew Fisher’s lonely soldier contemplates a dead, beached whale. His tragic subjects amplify the unfulfilled promises of a grand male journey. Katherine Bernhardt's rambunctious painting of a spiritually infused wild woman holds a presence of force and feminine panache. Dave Miko’s 2 small works act as caught moments. They seem to hold the sensuality of remembered if unimportant memories. Jennifer Coates’ small, strange landscape hovers as a metaphor between body and mind. Corporal in an obvious way, it charmingly suggests the deep recesses of a soul floating a candied pink world.
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