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Wonderland:
Neil Farber, Amy Sillman,
Laura Mosquera, Clare Rojas |
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| Neil Farber is a member of the Royal
Art Lodge based in Winnipeg, Canada, a group of artists who
collaboratively produce mixed media art objects, dioramas, and
impromptu performances. Their work was features in a major exhibition
last ear at the Drawing Center in New York City.
Farber's watercolors are a subversive commentary on the implications
of children's book illustrations shaking loose the provocative tension
inherent in their strangely dislocated scenes of play and exploration.
Laura Mosquera works in a slick contemporary mode whose color and
composition derive from the polish and panache of advertising and
computer graphics. Her paintings and drawings center on the
psychologically tense and chilly world of urban hipsters who inhabit
random dislocated spatial terrains.
San Francisco painter, filmmaker and musician, Clare Rojas
creates extended narratives with repeating characters who interact
and travel through landscapes and environments. Her whimsical
fantasies have the authenticity of received folklore with its
engaging immediacy.
Amy Sillman combines serene expanses of softly luminous color
with clusters of dainty doodles and delicately drawn figures. Her
complex, emotionally charged images are disquietingly poignant
essays on the human condition. Sillman's provocative reconciliation
of abstract calligraphy and surrealistic figuration, proposes
stylistic marriage of Phillip Guston with Cy Twombly, while also
looking back to the strange charm of Florine Stettheimer. |
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