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2/25-3/29 "Girl Memories"

Opening Reception: 2/25 Friday, 7-10pm Adela Leibowitz Mary Lydecker Melissa Zexter curated by Tomoko Ashikawa

Melissa Zexter	Adela Leibowitz	Mary Lydecker

Installation View

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Brooklyn - AG Gallery is pleased to present "Girl Memories", a three-person show of painting, drawing and photography. The show is comprised of works that express supposedly "sweet" girl's childhood memories. To fill the space between elusive memory and sweet nostalgia, three female artists present different techniques of storytelling.

Adela Leibowitz presents her latest painting of three girls in the blue woods as well as two paintings from the same series. Inspired by Grimm's Fairy Tales and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, to horror movies Village of the Damned and The Shining, she explores a combined storytelling of both sweet nostalgia and creepy nightmare. All scenes are painted in blue and create a dreamy-like landscape. Twin girls are sitting in the woods and three girls are walking, being looked by someone from the back. A stuck of teddy bears exposes both innocent and violent sides of children.

Mary Lydecker combines painting, drawing and sewing on primed muslin. By drawing the subject matters from personal photographs from growing up, she revisits her childhood memories and reinterprets the past experiences into more anonymous form and style. All the people in the paintings are faceless and stand on the architectural forms of unreadable words. The way the images are constructed reveals the mechanics of human mind, almost like a computer graphics. In the meantime, the touch of handmade process expresses the fragility of limited memory.

Melissa Zexter shows selected four pieces from her body of work of hand sewn embroidered photographs. She hand-stitches intricate puzzles using needle and thread over color and black and white photographs. The sawn patterns of the vivid colored thread become a drawing in the photograph, adding another texture and dimensions to the image. The slow process of hand-sewn embroidery with more immediate medium of photography gives more character to each captured moment.

"Girl Memories" will be on view at AG Gallery through March 29th, 2005. 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