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Untitled Document
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Brooklyn PaintersOctober 22 - November 30
Curator’s Note
by Cynthia Farnell
By necessity I selected many of the paintings in this exhibition during a 24 hour visit to Brooklyn in June 2009. The time limit gave the experience an appropriate tension, considering the edgy themes that run through all of the work. Nothing is static — a reflection of the urban experience. In the city, life becomes a series of gestures, broad strokes and intensities.
The painters may differ in their processes and formal strategies, but they do share an awareness of community. Whether manifested in the webs and cells of Yokobori’s and Zeller’s work, or in the carefully orchestrated and tenuous assembly of chance by MacGuffie, Nadeau, and Rust, the canvas is a common field where diverse players coalesce. Stoicheff, Hassan and Elliott turn inward, exploring diasporic identities through the mediated image, myth and apocalyptic landscape.
Meaning is continually deferred, with each artist staking ground in uncertain territory.
In all, spatial ambiguity and shifting figure /ground relationships echo the dynamics of contemporary life.
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Monday though Friday
