BUIA Gallery is pleased to present BREEZER, an exhibition
featuring work by gallery artists and new additions. Playfully and
irreverently embodying the spirit of summer, the exhibition
energetically and light heartedly meshes eclectic approaches to arrive
at a dynamic installation that questions how group shows are conceived
of and presented.
In the most literal treatment of the show, Daniel Joseph presents tuck in your shine,
2006 a large scale installation of t-shirts, made by or for his
friends, installed in the form of a t-shirt as well as a short video in
which he concocts a study of human emotion via a friend of his
lip-synching to a Liz Phair song. In both cases he continues his study
of the culture of community with a particular eye towards the summer.
With a similar consideration of the season, Matt Jones
offers a new series of light, floaty yellow paintings and a fireworks
video, ultimately interlacing two antithetical media in order to
further his ongoing study of his personal emotional growth as a way of
reflecting humanity at large. A third artist taking into account the
mood of summer and personal analysis, Kadar Brock
presents two new, bright, vigorous, physical paintings that take off
from the Ab/Ex tradition and coyly negotiate the line between art
historical concerns and self-effacing personal exploration.
Jan Christensen, on the other hand, takes on the notion of preparation for a group show in his acrylic and tape on canvas text painting, Breezer,
2006 that presents his journey almost in the form of a diary entry. In
addition, he takes over almost an entire gallery wall with the latest
version of his ongoing series, Painting myself into a corner,
2004-6 a dramatic wall painting embodying the renegade spirit of summer
and the collaborative potential of the group show in its most explosive
edition yet. Kalle Runeson’s pop culture influenced colorful watercolors and Shay Kun’s juxtaposed Hudson Valley and pop/thrift store aesthetic oil and acrylic painting, Your kid is not special, 2006 humorously and ironically tackle social issues while retaining a summery mood in style and palette.
In The other shoe dropped, 2006 Paul Paddock
offers a glimpse into the human psyche in his simple, mildly perverse
figurative watercolor emphasizing the use and power of negative space.
Also engaged in the psychological arena, Eve K. Tremblay
manipulates the viewer’s understanding of reality and expectation,
presenting an image of an adolescent girl squatting in a garden in Le buisson du pipi, 2000. Literary and filmic references, as always in Tremblay’s work, are at play.
In the graphite on paper piece, Drawing one, 2006 Jason Tomme constructs a meditation on the notion of surface, the breakdown of space and the art object while Brock Enright,
intrigued by Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase, 1912 and the
potential of misunderstanding to help create good art, presents the The excorcists_platform 1, 2006 a sculpture embodying the concept of perpetual motion in a contemporary readymade.
GALLERY SUMMER HOURS: TUESDAY – FRIDAY, 10 – 6
541 W. 23rd St.
(Between 10th & 11th Avenues)
New York, NY 10011
T. 212 366 9915
F. 212 366 9846
