XS - Extra Small Recent acquisitions Hypochondriac and Diagnosis are currently on view in the Mezzanine Gallery of the Lila Acheson Wallace Wing as a part of the exhibition XS - Extra Small, curated by Jacques and Natasha Gelman Curator Sabine Rewald. ______________________
Sore Spots
For the exhibition Sore Spots Amy Bennett has created several different fictional settings including such public places as a church, a doctor's office, and a theater. As a starting point Amy builds detailed 3D miniature models to serve as still lifes for each painting. Many of the narratives stem from these communal locations that invite introspection and risk the personal spilling into public view. A doctor’s office, for instance, often prompts people to consider their own mortality, perhaps while in a stuffy, crowded waiting room or sitting half naked in a cold, sterile little room. Such situations can be both comical and absurd. The tension between privacy and openness, appropriateness and honesty ties many of the paintings together. “Working with models helps me to develop narratives and compositions by offering me complete creative control over an imaginary, but believable world. Developing a scene in 3D helps me to process and extract bits of my experience, whether it is first or second hand, in order to make what is intuitive and dream-like something more concrete and real — something I can observe real light affecting. I feel very emotionally connected to a scene and its characters by the time I begin painting. I try to allow the slight awkwardness of the model world to translate into the paintings to simulate the inadequacies of the memories, dreams and imagination that inspired the images in the first place." Amy Bennett was born in 1977 in Maine. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Since her last exhibition in the gallery she has participated in the exhibitions Otherworldly: Optical Delusions & Small Realities, Museum of Arts and Design, NYC (2011), Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts & Letters, NYC (2011),Vacationland, solo show at Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (2009) and At The Lake, solo show at Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (2009). Recently she was a resident at The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation’s Space Program and was awarded The America Academy of Arts & Letters, Rosenthal Family Foundation Award in Painting and a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship. Reception Thursday November 10, 5.00–8.00 pm. Gallery Hours: Please contact the gallery for images and further information.
Gallery artists: Mamma Andersson, Roger Andersson, Lars Arrhenius, Amy Bennett, Mette Björnberg, Thomas Broomé, Amy Cutler, Marcel Dzama, Niklas Eneblom, Sara-Vide Ericson, Jens Fänge, Carl Hammoud, Tommy Hilding, Kent Iwemyr, Richard Johansson, Johanna Karlsson, Klara Kristalova, Peter Köhler, Hans Lannér, Petra Lindholm, Ulf Lundin, Anne-Marie Nordin, Maria Nordin, Jockum Nordström, Johannes Nyholm, Jeff Olsson, Charlie Roberts, Susanne Simonson and Erik Wennerstrand. ______________________ Heydays
Installation complete! See images here. Fabrication by Franz Meyer of Munich. Press: ______________________ |
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