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Whiting
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Whiting Tennis
Greenwood, 2004
Acrylic, collage on canvas
20 x 30 inches
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| Whiting Tennis constructs images of abandoned buildings and
rural landscapes by combining painted, printed and found sheets of paper
assembled, cut and collaged to form a meeting of scene painting with
Cubist collage. His works are a clever convergence of painting and printmaking
, representational imagery and the artificial aesthetic of stage sets.
For Tennis, the textural and formal relationships of even the most ordinary
streets, ramshackle buildings and rural landscapes contain the material
of heightened drama and hidden narratives. By finding poetry in the
banal and symbolic and aesthetic significance in the random and everyday,
Tennis unites the methods of mainstream modernism to contemporary postmodern
nostalgia. |
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Marina Berio
Untold Story #7, 2001.
Silver gelatin print
20 x 20 inches
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| Also on view are recent photographs by Marina Berio from her
series titled Untold Stories. Taken primarily on the Staten Island Ferry
in New York City, Berio layers her photographic images, shooting through
windows covered with the accumulated markings of graffiti and dirt between
the spatial clarity of highly observed screen and a distant subject.
Berio establishes a nonverbal, highly atmospheric visual narrative,
alluding to the mysterious spatial interplay between anonymous travelers
and their surroundings and the psychological and physical space between
the artist and her subject. |
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