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2/9 - 3/11/2007
Opening Reception: 2/9/2007 Friday 7-10pm

4 Coupled Artists:
Gina & Matt
Kelie Bowman & Sto
Leah Oates & Pierre St-Jacques
Rene Lynch & Julian Jackson

Curated by Tomoko Ashikawa

 
Gina & Matt
Leah Oates
Pierre St-Jacques
 
Julian Jackson
Rene Lynch
Kelie Bowman
Sto

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Brooklyn - AG Gallery is pleased to present a valentine's special group exhibition, "4 Couples", presenting artworks by 4-coupled-artists. The show will consist of wide range of mediums from painting, drawing to video and photography. Each couple will present a "love letter" as an exchanging artist statement to express how they are inspired by each other as an artist and a person in relationship.

Gina & Matt have shared a studio for over 10 years. They started talking about each other's work and exchanging ideas for a few years and then started painting collaboratively. While Matt mostly works on hand painted letterings, motifs, and patterns, Gina paints nature scenes and animal figures. When both elements meet on a canvas, they create a dynamic scenario with different philosophies carried by two different artists.

Rene Lynch draws iconic childhood figures, depicting the blurred boundary diving innocence and experience. Her watercolor piece embodies both childhood nostalgia and growing realization of the adulthood. Julian Jackson focuses on the ephemeral nature of light in his painting and offers the viewer to experience multiple ways of seeing the landscape. It's as if there is a filter on the surface of the painting and its inside is changeable to any spaces each time the viewer revisits there.

Leah Oates is interested in the locations where people wouldn't visit as desirable destinations, yet has certain level of beauty and fragility. As she thinks that there is an extraordinary vibe of human energy in these locations, transitory space, she likes to document them through her photographs to express the ephemeral nature of human existence. In Pierre St- Jacques's video work, there is a parallel world of physical and psychological structures that human being unconsciously strives. By exploring the system of these structures, he constructs the abstract narratives we all perceive in our daily moment.

Kelie Bowman often uses an image of house to express the relationship between friends, boyfriend and girlfriend, and family members in her drawings. House is a metaphor of togetherness and also separateness. Her drawings with a house-headed person and couple show how we see our physical space with oneself and others. Sto's text based paintings on found woods are inspired by people's conversations, sings, media and many other language we see/hear everywhere in our everyday life. By switching the words to recreate original phrases, he challenges what the language could and would express through our perception.

"4 Couples" will be on view at AG Gallery through March 11th, 2007. The gallery is located at 103 North 3rd St. (between Berry and Wythe Ave.) Hours: Sun. 12-8pm Mon.-Sat. 12-10pm
For further information, please contact the gallery at 718-599-3044 or visit www.aboutglamour.net