13 Sept 2007 to 21 Oct 2007
hours: saturday and sunday 12-6 pm and by appt
Opening Reception Friday, Sept. 14, 6-9 pm
Metaphor Contemporary Art
382 Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
NY 11217
New York, NY
New York
North America
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Ilene Sunshine New Vein #39 leaf, gesso, plastic bag, thread on paper 12 x 9 inches
4 artists address environmental issues with wit and poetics
Ilene Sunshine Dan Ford Valeri Larko Matthew Magee
GREEN features the work of four artists who respond to environmental concerns with wit and poetics.
Ilene Sunshine brings the outdoors in with her use of twigs and branches and cleverly reimagines the detritus of found plastic bags in a colorful large scale site specific installation which bisects the gallery space creating a wall "of air" and pays homage to and playfully subverts formal concerns of mid century modernism and color field painting.
Matthew Magee's large site specific window installation also makes use of found plastic and references early modernists constructions. His vibrant green mobile is made entirely of recycled detergent bottles cut and arranged in a waterfall of green shapes that allude to bones and hieroglyphics.
Valeri Larko in her Salvage Yard series; paints heaps of garbage in beautiful operatic jumbles of texture and subtle color.
Dan Ford's lush romantic paintings are both an homage to the 19th century painter Joseph Mallord William Turner and a wry comment on our contemporary conflicted relationship to oil dependency.
The works of each of these artists, while not being polemically political reimagine the refuse of our consumer culture and our love affair with petrochemicals to offer a creative and hopeful reinvention of our future.
