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Email PageWall Paintings and Drawings 2002-2006
September 14, 2006- October 21, 2006
Reception: September 14, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Kay Rosen
Yvon Lambert Gallery
550 W 21st StYvon Lambert New York is pleased to announce the first exhibition by Kay Rosen at the gallery. The exhibition will feature two recent wall paintings, New Orleans 2005 (2005-06) and I Wish I Knew My Neighbor Better (2005-06), as well as works on paper and canvas. The exhibition will be on view from September 14 through October 21, 2006. Yvon Lambert New York is located at 564 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001, and is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10AM-6PM.
In the front gallery, the two wall paintings, along with the work on canvas Back of the Boat (1996/2006), form a reaction and tribute to the tragedy of Hurricane Katrina and its effect on New Orleans, where the artist attended college. In the double wall portrait, I Wish I Knew My Neighbor Better, Rosen finds inspiration in the name “Ivory L. Brown,” a resident of her hometown. The back gallery includes seventeen colored pencil works on paper arranged alphabetically by text image, which examine, sometimes humorously, a broad range of issues and ideas.
Rosen has been exploring language through her art for over 25 years, following a formal education in that field. In her paintings, drawings, wall works, collages, editions and published projects, she has used various visual, grammatical, and typographical strategies to release new meaning from found words and phrases, and to challenge the way people read. In this newest body of work, she relies primarily on color to share her discoveries about language. She uses color to distinguish parts of words and articulate them in ways that encourage the viewer to see and think differently about language and what it represents.
Rosen has said, “language is used by artists in different ways: for its message, as pop imagery, as texture, for its conceptual content, as surface design...for me the language in my work is primarily about itself, about its structure. At least that’s how it starts out.” But the artist suggests in her new catalogue interview that the vast possibilities of language and art, along with the willing viewer, can potentially take these verbal images far from where they begin as simply structural objects.
A catalogue marking the first collaboration between the artist and Yvon Lambert New York will also accompany the exhibition. The catalogue consists of an interview of 20 questions posed by friends and colleagues of the artist, edited by Matthew Higgs (artist, writer and director of White Columns); images of works from the exhibition; and an essay by Rosen, reprinted from the magazine artUS (2005).
Kay Rosen’s work is included in numerous collections, among them The Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Art Institute of Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Indianapolis Museum of Art; and Re Rebaudango Collection in Turin, Italy. Born in Corpus Christi, Texas, she teaches at the Art Institute of Chicago, and lives and works in Gary, Indiana.
Art Reviews of Wall Paintings and Drawings 2002-2006
| New York Times October 13, 2006 | Roberta Smith | "Kay Rosen might be described as a writer’s sculptor. While strictly two-dimensional, her crisp sign-painter-style drawings and wall paintings cleave and reassemble words: highlighting, deleting or shoving together their letters and syllables to make them new in ways variously phonetic, typographic, visual and linguistic...." |
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