25 Apr 2008 to 23 May 2008
Gallery Hours :Tuesday - Saturday, 10am - 6pm
Opening reception April 24, 2008, 6-8pm
Marianne Boesky Gallery
509 West 24th Street
NY 10011
New York, NY
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Rachel Feinstein April 25 – May 23, 2008 Opening reception April 24, 2008, 6-8pm
Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new sculptures by Rachel Feinstein. This will be the artist's third solo show at the gallery.
Feinstein's new sculptures depict a variety of subjects including mythic and religious iconography, amorphous figures, and a broken carriage, altogether pursuing themes of beauty, fantasy and ruination. Inspired by images of Brancusi's studio showing the range of materials, forms and scale in his sculptures, Feinstein undertakes a similar diversity in her new works. Utilizing plywood, resin, and for the first time cement and copper, the artist allows each sculpture its own unique finish.
A felled wooden carriage, finished in black stain and fitted with a working lantern, takes its inspiration from 19th century Austrian royal stagecoaches. A trio of wreathed minstrel-like figures, connected to one another by a length of rope, offer a multi-faceted, Cubist viewpoint with cutouts of flattened shapes and forms jigsawed together. Other sculptures reconfigure putti and centaur-like figures, abstracting them almost beyond recognition.
In the main gallery will be a large-scale wall relief rendered in cut copper. The work, inspired in part by 15th century tapestries, depicts an abstracted Saint Michael slaying the dragon amid a tangled mess of wings, lances and tails. With its super thin copper construction and jagged, unfinished edges, the work evokes a seductiveness through the extravagant materiality and tormented surface. Each of the Feinstein's sculptures retains its autonomy with an individual narrative, ultimately relating to the juxtaposed one in terms of the positive and negatives spaces of its form.
Rachel Feinstein lives and works in New York. Two catalogues on Feinstein's work will be published this year: tarSiz will publish a book with an essay by James Frey and an interview by Sofia Coppola at the end of May, and a comprehensive book will be published by Le Consortium, Dijon this summer in conjunction with Feinstein's exhibition held in 2006.
Jeffrey Wells Project Space April 12 – May 3, 2008 Opening reception April 24, 2008 6 – 8 pm
Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Jeffrey Wells in the project space.
In this exhibition, the artist continues his exploration of perception through subtle means. The project space is installed with six unique animations, which cast their delicate imagery upon the walls, floor and furniture. Accompanying the video works are six c-prints mounted on sheetrock fragments that line the walls, cryptically referencing the very images being projected. Wells uses motion, with slight movements sometimes barely discernable, to engage and reorient the viewer's visual faculties. Time plays a role in the artist's entwined narratives as well, slowly offering more clues as the works unfold. Wells creates a room within a room, confusing and questioning what is perceived, what is real and what is imagined, ultimately presenting an infinite way of seeing.
Jeffrey Wells lives and works in Joshua Tree, California. He was included in the group show, "Joe Deutch, Jay Heikes, Chris Moukarbel, Kianja Strobert, Jeffrey Wells, curated by Clarissa Dalrymple" at the gallery in 2006. The artist will have a solo show at Shane Campbell Gallery in Oak Park, IL April 27 - July 6, 2008
