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Monday, May 18, 2009
Light Through The Web...
"Girl in Water"Light Through The Web
Lauren Seiden’s images, often trawled from the depths of the world-wide web, express both the vagary of the image when pixilated and mechanically reproduced, as well as the primacy of the artist who has the power to re-vitalize the images into something much more vibrant. Indeed there is the sense that, by copying by hand something that has been mechanically reproduced, the artist is literally breathing new life into the image and the subject itself. Thus the eyes of Freckle-face stare out with the clairvoyance of awakening, and bodies described through the lattice of modulated grays and white spots of oil, graphite, and pencil seem to writhe and contract as if emerging from a deep dark slumber. With this new awakening, an invitation by the artist on behalf of her subjects bespeaks an intimacy with the subject that would otherwise have been impossible. The girl in the water, her hair as fluid as the mottled dark lines that compose the picture, closes her eyes to us, and yet we feel as if we are still there, if not in the water with her, at least right beside her. Her closed eyes are as much a gesture of trust to us as they are a dreamy act of necessity for her self. From the “web” to a web. This re-constitution of the computerized and de-personalized web photo into an image that permeates light and life thus invites the audience to re-consider this manufactured world in which we live, to find the exalted in the mundane, and yes, a thousand points of light within the shadows.
Group Show @ Collective Hardware
An Art Show by:
NO BOX ASSEMBLY
Leah Dixon Winston Chmielinski Heidi Hahn
Jonathon Jackson Lauren Seiden
Curated by Theodore Barrow
At Collective Hardware
169 Bowery NYC
6pm-12am
No Box Assembly is a group of five young painters from around the country who converged in a painting studio in an old Lower East Side synagogue. The artists of No Box work for themselves, and present to each other. They have found that a group dynamic and common purpose allows each individual to push into his/her own process. Though working in the same space under similar conditions, each artist produces art that is largely directed by their own personal vision. This in turn, lead to dynamic opportunities for group exhibition as well as a unique blend of influences and support for their individual projects.
No Box Assembly is proud to collaborate with Collective Hardware for their first group exhibtion, "The Gum That You like is Coming Back..."
Opening Reception April 4th, 2009
Show dates: April 4th-April 11th
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