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5/25 -
6/24/2007 OPEN CALL EXHIBITION
Opening Reception:
5/25/2007 Friday 7-10pm
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Elena Ruano
Kanidinc
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Lorri Ott
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Liz Sweibel
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Levent
Tuncer
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Gina Fuentes
Walker |
Nathan
J Wasserbauer
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Seldon
Yuan
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Jieun Zaun
Lee
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
"Neo Abstraction"
5/25 - 6/24/2007
Opening Reception: 5/25/2007, Friday, 7-10pm
Artists: Elena Ruano/ Lorri Ott/ Liz Sweibel/ Levent Tancer/ Gina Fuentes Walker/ Nathan J Wasserbauer/ Seldon Yuan/ Jieun Zaun Lee
Brooklyn - AG Gallery is pleased
to present our third annual juried exhibition, Neo Abstraction, a group
exhibition of eight
artists selected from the
open call submissions.
Abstract art is generally understood to mean art that does not depict objects
in the natural world, but instead uses color and form in a non-representational
way. In the very early 20th century, the term was more often used to describe
art, such as Cubist and Futurist art, that depicts real forms in a simplified
or rather reduced way - keeping only an allusion of the original natural
subject.
In this exhibition, Neo Abstraction, each artist presents a response
to the traditional Abstract Art, transforming its idea to the contemporary
art in 21st Century. The show will consist of wide range of medium, including
painting, photography, sculpture, animation and installation work.
Elena Ruano is often inspired by architectural drawings as well as basic
geometrical shapes - lines, squares and circles. By cutting the simplified
shapes on a
paper and adding the light behind it, she transforms two-dimensional composition
into three-dimensional object. Lorri Ott's sculpture visualizes intangible
elements in our everyday landscape with playful shapes and vivid colors.
The floating shape made by resin and colorful objects around it express
the harmony
of nature with humor and fantasy. Liz Sweibel makes small collage pieces
out of magazines and scrap papers. By assembling the images of domestic
objects and architectural plans, she questions how we see our living environment
and
intimate space. Levent Tancer's painting deals with the dynamics of repetition.
He uses a single sixteenth century lznik tile pattern and lets it mutate
on canvas by emphasizing the beauty of its geometry. Gina Fuentes Walker
manipulates
light sources to photograph architecture and interior spaces. In this exhibition,
she presents her latest installation piece where similar imageries of the
sky, nature and architectural structures are represented differently to
challenge
the audience's perception. Nathan J Wasserbauer "explores the codependency
between the organic and industrial world as celebratory decadence and abusive
exploitation" in his work. He presents an animation piece and his latest
painting
that express his continuous interest in urban structures and its obscurity.
Seldon Yuan manifests a possibility of combining the contradicted means
between visual and literal as well as abstract and specific. In this exhibition,
he presents his sculptural piece that his poetry is lying on mirrored box.
Jieun
Zaun Lee makes up her own games using dashes and dots to fill up the grid
and applies its logical system to the practice of painting - "just as
we
tend
to play logical games with insensible rules for insensible aims in our
lives".
Neo Abstraction will be on view at AG Gallery through June 24th, 2007. The gallery is located at 103 North 3rd St. (between Berry and Wythe Ave.) Hours: Sun. 12-8pm Mon.-Fri. 1-9pm, Sat. 12-10pm
For further information, please contact the gallery at 718-599-3044 or visit www.aboutglamour.net