Painting As Paradox @ Artists Space – by NY Arts

Simon Aldridge, Ellen Altfest, Augusto Arbizo, Jan Baracz, Roberto Bermejo, Sebastian Blanck, Mark Bradford, Monica Bradley, Jane Callister, Karlos Carcamo…

Painting As Paradox @ Artists Space

by NY Arts

, Carolyn Carr, Jos� Le�n Cerrillo, Matt Chansky, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Elizabeth Conlon, Claire Corey, Maria Cruz, Jay Davis, Andrea DeFlorio, Mary Doherty, Tim Doud, Carl Eckhoff, Benjamin Edwards, Judith Eisler, Karel Funk, Michael Gibson, Frantiska + Tim Gilman, Inaki Gracenea, Isca Greenfield-Sanders, Terry Haggerty, Perry Hall, Brad Hampton, Marc Handelman, Janice Handleman, Ellen Harvey, Millree Hughes, Minako Iwamura, Sunny Kim, Kieran Kinney, Carla Klein, Dorota Kolodziejczyk, Mara Korkola, Sze Tsung Leong, Evan Lintermans, Valentina Loi, Octavius Neveaux, David Nicholson, Odili Donald Odita, Graham Parks, Michael Phelan, Thomas Pihl, Seth Price, Nathaniel Quinn, Blake Rayne, Jessica Rohrer, Gabriela Schutz, James Sheehan, John Tremblay, Anton Vidokle, Kelley Walker, Darren Wardle, Kehinde Wiley, CarrieYamaoka, Gyoko Yoshida, Brenda Zlamany

Painting As Paradox is an exercise in synthesizing the research of eclectic practices of young emerging artists grappling with various legacies of painting. Their work reflects a continual gesturing towards tradition and a concurrent redefinition of painting in contemporary terms. Examining the tendencies of artists trying to reconcile the contradictions and taboos of painting to date, not to mention its alleged disappearance and resurgence, this exhibition investigates the measures

taken to maintain the medium’s relevance.

Affected by the specter of both historical and contemporary precursors,

the work represented in the exhibition also demonstrates the re-posturing

of traditional genres within the lexicon of new technologies. This highly

self-conscious interest in the status of painting, its production,

reception, and circulation, has led to enormous activity. From digital

painting, hybrid painting, non-painting, hyper-figurative painting, and

beyond, it is evident that current artists are in effect initiating a

collapse of categorization.

In light of the current block-buster exhibitions such as Urgent Painting

at the Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris or Painting at the Edge of

the World, Walker Art Center, Painting As Paradox does not intend to

compete as a survey of present movements in art making. Rather, the

exhibition focuses on over fifty emerging artists whose work reveals

contradictions within individual practices, as well as exposing the visual

and conceptual tensions between disparate contemporaneous productions.

Hung salon-style to reflect the sheer proliferation of contrary practices

engaging with painting in literal or negational terms, and to illustrate

the maintenance, yet eruption of traditional genres, the task of this

exhibition is to represent, not to reconcile, disparate levels of

production in a condensed space.

A catalogue is available upon request.

Installation view: 1. Valentina Loi, Boy; 2. Mara Korkola, No Place 38; 3.

Maria Cruz, Untitled; 4. Maria Cruz, Southwest Breeze; 5. Augusto Arbizo,

Forest I; Augusto Arbizo, Forest II; 6. Dorota Kolodziejczyk, All of the

Above; 7. Jane Callister, Liquid Landscape; 8. Ellen Altfest, The Brook;

9. Blake Rayne, Untitled; 10. Odili Donald Odita, Shockwave; 11. Millree

Hughes, Krill; 12. Michael Phelan, Floating Castle; 13. John

Tremblay,(Molten Rock) Magma (Asphalt Rundown); 14. Jane Callister, Liquid

Landslide; 15. Michael Phelan, Autumn Maples; 16. Michael Phelan, Spring’s

Here; 17. Graham Parks, the division

Painting As Paradox

Curated by Lauri Firstenberg

November 7 —December 21, 2002

Artists Space

38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor

New York, NY 10013

T.212.226.3970 Ext. 27

F.212.966.1434