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Email PageBoilermaker
June 29, 2006- September 16, 2006
Brian Block, Quentin Curry, Graham Dolphin, Noah Khoshbin, Dwayne Moser, Russell Young
Stellan Holm Gallery
524 W 24th St
Summer Group Show curated by Amelia Abdullahsani
This summer STELLAN HOLM GALLERY is proud to present BOILERMAKER, a group show of new works by innovative young artists that are sure to become more widely known to New York audiences in the coming years.
A boilermaker is a classic American cocktail of the hard drinking class: a shot of whiskey dropped into a fresh pint of beer, often as a first drink to accelerate one’s jump into the evening.
Similarly, BOILERMAKER assembles an international group of artists that use methods of transforming source images and cultural artifacts to subvert and ultimately accelerate their effects in unexpected and often intense ways. BOILERMAKER delves straight into American society in ways that reflect the cultural and political dissonance of recent years with subjects and themes such as celebrity, publicity, advertising, and rock and roll, which like the boilermaker drink, come straight from the center of classic American culture.
BOILERMAKER brings together works from an international cast of emerging artists: Brian Block, Quentin Curry, Graham Dolphin, Noah Khoshbin, Dwayne Moser, Russell Young, with works never before seen by the New York audience.
Dwayne Moser's massive cinematic backdrops depict sites of celebrity misdemeanors transformed in all their startling banality via the hands of Hollywood scenic background painters. This manipulation of photography and a trope of cinema reality construction reinterpret the idea of landscape painting. Also reinterpreting the tradition of landscape painting is Quentin Curry: his superimposition of icebergs on a tropical landscape amid a startling original palette has one pondering the long-term effects of capitalism, mass media and advertising. Meanwhile, Brian Block's oil enamel paintings (made with large paint rollers on billboard advertisements) collide deft yet seemingly futile brushstrokes with found cropped vinyl billboard images that once lined America’s highways. The results are a stunning new move in painting.
The deceptively simple human obsession with celebrity is originally explored in Noah Khoshbin's and Russell Young's works. Noah's Khoshbin's spray-stenciled wall painting, which is a rough and yet striking exploration of the formulation of meaning in publicity. Russell Young's silkscreens of celebrity mugshots display the celebrity at the moment when he is at both his worst and his best. Graham Dolphin meticulously writes the lyrics of all the songs on Talking Heads: 77 onto the record cover in miniscule lettering. Lyrics are seen as modern-day poetry, with images of the songs inalienable from the image of the musical celebrity.
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