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Inka Essenhigh Plots the Undoing of the Figure
Inka Essenhigh is a New York-based painter whose highly colorful paintings feature dramatic distortions and abstractions of figures and landscapes. Earlier bodies of work dating to the 1990s featured opaque effects, linear elements and violent painterly gestures, all in tension with the artist's rich, vibrant color fields. Essenhigh is masterful at drawing us into her paintings under the notion that we are in familiar territory, from which her work then pushes the viewer to re-consider the effects of distorted figuration and abstraction on our powers of recognition.Read More
Beyond the Surface: Richard Phillips
Richard Phillips' paintings, typically large-scale portraits of women rendered in fetishistic detail, are usually described as hyper- or photorealistic. His working method involves the careful pre-selection of source photos that punctuate Phillips narrative content. But whether he's painting landscapes, advertising materials or subjects drawn from the history of world war, Phillips doesn't use photography as a means to an end, or even as a means to figuration. For Phillips, photographic source material is a starting point for an analysis of the types of exchange that happen during representation and beyond it.Read More
Spencer Tunick Is Out in the Open
It's 6 AM in Caracas, Venezuela. 1200 police and military are stationed in key locations around the perimeter of a designated area. Something highly complex yet profoundly simple is being staged. This is a race against the elements, as the sun in its full expression makes successfully photographing the scene impossible. Spencer Tunick, a 42-year-old New York-based artist, has a team of assistants and several cameras ready to shoot. Over a thousand people have gathered, ready to disrobe and pose according to Tunick's direction. The resulting photographs portray enormous groupings of unclothed human figures in repetitive poses, sitting, standing or lying adjacent to one another in a city street or spread over large areas of a landscape.Read More
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"Landscapes! Romance, Recession, and Rottenness," work by Wardell Milan, is currently on view at Taxter and Spengemann Gallery.
