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Painter Sarah McKenzie's NYC solo debut, Building Code, includes eight paintings and opens tonight at Jen Bekman Gallery.
Please join us at 6 Spring Street from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m., tonight, February 20, 2009, at a reception for the artist.
McKenzie writes:
My paintings are informed both by three-dimensional architectural space and by the pictorial "space" of twentieth century Modernist painting. The generic forms of suburban architecture provide a convenient framework through which I explore the basic structures and issues of geometric abstraction -- stripes, grids, flatness vs. depth, color relativity, and so forth. Many of my recent works are marked by distinct moments of visual rupture, where the picture as a whole becomes fragmented. I am applying paint to the surface in any number of incongruent ways, juxtaposing various painting "styles," leaving sections of the painting support unpainted, and otherwise undermining the potential for a unified image. This disruption of the viewer's experience is disorienting, but in a good way, for it enables the viewer to see the picture with fresh eyes—to see the picture itself as a construction. The underlying structure of the image is revealed, like the skeletal frame of a building.
Her work can also be seen in the traveling exhibition Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes, which originated at the Walker Art Center in February 2008 and will continue on to the Yale School of Architecture in March 2009.
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