14 Nov 2008 to 21 Dec 2008
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Rob Fisher Shady Cop, 2008 acrylic and silkscreen on handmade paper mounted to canvas
Rob Fisher : These Are the People in your Neighborhood Dejan Kaludjeroviż : JE SUIS MALADE
November 14–December 21 Public Reception Friday, November 14, 7–9pm
Rob Fisher NEO-ALFRED HITCHCOCK Jack the Pelican is honored to present the latest solo exhibition of painter Rob Fisher, "These Are the People in your Neighborhood," (titled in wry allusion to Mr. Rogers). Each painting is the documentation of a real New York City crime (ca. 1900 - 2007), with a tableau of evidence painted into a shallow neo-Modern space.
The nature of the incident is often buried behind the raw concentration of facts. Some are obscure; others more famous, like the 2005 "Fake Firefighter Rapes Woman in New York City Apartment" nightmare. The stories appear all sanitized and folded up in Fisher's paintings for decoding by astute viewers. They are Hitchcockian in their underlying themes, as deeply mysterious and sublime as his Rope (1948), after Leopold and Loeb's almost perfect crime of 1924. The chief difference in sensibility is that Fisher focuses on crimes of specific local interest. "These are y/our crimes," he would say.
FISHER'S EDDY Rob Fisher last had a solo show in 2003 at Pierogi in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. He was soon picked up and represented by Marlborough Gallery (57th Street), who showed his work extensively in group exhibitions. He finally ended the relationship in December of last year over creative differences. Now he returns to W'burg with his first solo show in 5 years. This exhibition, which he has been working toward all the while, is presented by Jack the Pelican, the gallery who now proudly represents him.
Dejan Kaludjeroviă JE SUIS MALADE
Come and meet the internationally-acclaimed Serbian artist, who is based in Vienna and is now in the U.S. for a short time only.
ON VIEW THREE DAYS ONLY December 19–December 21, 2008
A MINUS SUITCASE Eva Jung
Barry Hazard, Jaclyn Meloche, Elizabeth Otten, David Mramor, Kevin Regan, Jungsun Park, Baishian Bai, Michael Drury, Jonathon Hartshorn, Brendan Carney, Jeffrey Brady, Scott Lawrence, Thury Sigurthorsdottir, Thor Sigurthorsson, Nicholas Fraser, Justin Mata, Tom Weinrich, Hadassa Goldvitch, Debo Eilers
Dressed in her trademark navy blue suit, Jung presents the image of a polite, friendly and genteel young professional. However, getting so much art into her suitcase will require her to be fiercely, tenaciously pragmatic. It is clear the work will get damaged—a lot at first, and then more over time.
This is her experiment in movement, storage and surplus. With the insouciance of an airline stewardess, she will nonchalantly roll the tatters and remnants in her "pretty" suitcase through airport terminals in Seoul, Berlin, Mexico City, LA, Iceland, Venice and more...to share with the world the wonders of young artists working in New York City
