STELLAN HOLM GALLERY is pleased to present Quentin Curry's first New York solo exhibition Su Casa Mi Casa. Exhibition opens on Friday, September 14, 2007. Opening reception from 6 to 8 pm.
Quentin Curry's paintings juxtapose the urban and the rural, blending the urban progress of the built metropolis and the receding ecological environment. Reality and imagination form a landscape that is forlorn yet beautiful; highlighting Man's ecological and celestial impact. His paintings are part biographic, part observation and part prophetic. With design and technological advances that produce a higher standard of living, Curry's paintings beg us to question the cost of progress. Curry reminds us that we are all inhabitants of the same planet, conjuring the idea of Buckminster Fuller's Spaceship Earth. Man's creative and intellectual abilities are unlimited, and the use and development of technology and design-led solution could bring forth a positive future.
Curry has refined his innovative technique of painting with oil and stonedust on panel. After applying the oil and stonedust through a porous fabric, he strips the fabric away. Like taking off a mask, Curry pulls the textured fabric away from the painted surface to unearth an eye-opening exposure of layers and layers of embedded color. Curry reveals a landscape that at first glance resembles a pixilated computerized image, but upon closer inspection one sees that it is closer akin to a traditional fresco.
Born in Johnstown, Pennsylvania in 1972, Curry divided his childhood between Pennsylvania and Florida, where the dichotomy of the urban and the rural began at a very young age. At age 17, he moved to Vermont to attend The Putney School. Curry attended Bard College (1991-1992) and San Francisco Art Institute (1994-1995). Since 1996, he has been living in the ultra urban environment of New York City.
