ELSEWHERE A multi-media group exhibition curated by Shinique Smith.
Opening reception Saturday, April 25, 7-9M Exhibition runs April 25 - June 6, 2009
Featuring works by Justin Anderson, Christine Bailey, Jane Benson, Jennie C. Jones, Marcus Morales, Erika Ranee, Sean Ryan and Mickalene Thomas.
�As above, so below� - Hermes
�Poetry and painting sublime and purify thought, by grasping the past, the present, and the future�they give the mind a foretaste of its immortality, and thus prepare it for performing an exalted part amid the realities of life.� Thomas Cole, �Essay on American Scenery,� American Monthly Magazine, 1836.
The works in this exhibition embody the definition of 'elsewhere'. They make references to locales and scenes either witnessed or imagined, while sharing a romantic sensibility that manifests through varied processes. Within this Romanticism, the landscape becomes a hybrid of place, history, myth and illusion. As contemporary works they are loosely connected to �Golden Age� or utopian ideals of pastoral literature and art. Through imaginative and subjective approaches, these artists strive to express suggested states of feelings too intense, mystical or elusive to be clearly defined. Though these works share a relationship to the history of painting�s long romance with the land, they are of the Now. These are visions shaped not only by their awareness of the past, but also by their keen perceptions of our current time. Each artist is affected by the reality and technology of today, as demonstrated in the way they choose to embrace or repel these notions. There is a �quaintness� and �sentimentality� in these works and though they are not necessarily laments for the past, they are infused, at times, with disenchantment for the urban environment and quest for the ideal of somewhere else.
Elsewhere is curated by artist, Shinique Smith. Smith�s installation Like it Like That is currently on view at The Studio Museum in Harlem until June 28, 2009. Her works will be featured in an upcoming solo exhibition, Ten Times Myself at Yvon Lambert NY opening on May 22nd.
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