{"id":478,"date":"2003-01-24T05:38:31","date_gmt":"2003-01-24T05:38:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2008-10-29T05:48:08","modified_gmt":"2008-10-29T05:48:08","slug":"painting-as-paradox-at-artists-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2003\/01\/24\/painting-as-paradox-at-artists-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Painting as Paradox, at Artists Space"},"content":{"rendered":"

For ‘Flash Art’ magazine
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\"Karel<\/a>
Karel Funk, Untitled, 2002, Acrylic on Panel, 46 x 37 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nSince its supposed rebirth in the past decade, painting has been the subject of international exhibitions, books and magazine articles. Last fall, \u2018Painting as Paradox\u2019 at Artists Space took its own look at the genre in an exhibition of work, hung salon style, by over sixty emerging artists. Hanging on the wall at the entrance to the show, \u2018Minotaur 1.1,\u2019 a labyrinth constructed of gilded picture frame by Jan Baracz, alluded to the multiple paths available to the artist without employing an ounce of paint. It also introduced the \u2018paradox\u2019 of the artist who still manages to work in what has been called a \u2018dead\u2019 or underrated medium. The show\u2019s main proposition was that painters are avoiding dead ends and make the medium relevant to contemporary art and life by embracing the influence of photography, architectural images and computer \u2018painting\u2019 software.
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Jose Leon Cerillo, Eden, Eden, 2002, Acrylic on MDF Panel, Formica on Wood, 60 x 92 x 89 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nOne long wall devoted almost exclusively to photographically influenced realist portraiture included Octavius Neveaux\u2019s black and white self-portrait that mimicked the act of looking into the camera, and Isca Greenfield-Sanders\u2019 sunbather, painted from composite photos. A wall of landscapes favored abstract compositions like Millree Hughes\u2019 light infused lenticular prints and Odili Donald Odita\u2019s angled horizontal planes painted on canvas. In a separate room devoted to architecture as subject matter, Carla Klein and Marc Handelman each presented foreboding futuristic interior spaces, that contrasted with the kitschy Miami Vice vibe of Australian painter Kieren Kinney\u2019s hand painted island cityscape at night that resembled a computer generated image. Several paintings adopted a mechanical look, and several digital prints affected the look of painting, like Claire Corey\u2019s complex skeins of looping color. Artists even used video to ponder the concerns of abstraction, like Robert Bermejo\u2019s software program generating patterns on a flat screen monitor and Perry Hall\u2019s DVD of paint, bubbling like lava.
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David Nicholson, The Garden of Love, 2002, Oil on Canvas, 193 x 254 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nThe conceptual framework of \u201cPainting as Paradox\u201d was built on the understanding that painting is still not entire out of trouble. By focusing so heavily on paintings that adopt elements of digital technique, the show implied that the genre needs to \u2018do something\u2019 to make itself more relevant to those who would dismiss it in favor of new media. This point of view isn\u2019t surprising given curator Lauri Firstenberg\u2019s own tastes and respectable track record, both of which tend toward exhibitions of photography and architecturally inspired artwork. But this organizational principle doesn\u2019t do justice to the wide range of painting being made today. A more concise exhibition that clearly stated its biases could have avoided a true paradox, which is that the tired discussion of painting\u2019s health continues to occupy center stage in art discourse.
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Milree Hughes, Krill, 2002, Lenticular Print, 56 x 71 cm<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For ‘Flash Art’ magazine Since its supposed rebirth in the past decade, painting has been the subject of international exhibitions, books and magazine articles. Last fall, \u2018Painting as Paradox\u2019 at Artists Space took its own look at the genre in an exhibition of work, hung salon style, by over sixty emerging artists. Hanging on the … <\/p>\n

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