FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Jessica Murray Projects is pleased to announce Enchantment Enhancement, a new exhibition of paintings by Brady Dollarhide. The exhibition will open Friday, October 22, 2004 with a reception from 6 – 8 pm and will run through November 17. New gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11 – 6 pm.

Continuing Dollarhide’s investigation of the connection between portraiture and landscape, this new body of paintings evolves from the earlier works’ personal and self-searching disposition to a larger, social, post-apocalyptic mood. Expanding on the artist’s vocabulary of black-silhouetted poles, cords and trees, Dollarhide adds exploding fences, extended caution tape, and discarded umbrellas. Further layers of mist, sun and water create a seductive filmic space for the viewer to penetrate. As if arriving upon the scene of an accident or natural disaster, the viewer encounters these scenes prior to explanation.

Dollarhide’s signature black silhouetted post rises from the fog in You’re All I Ever Wanted, I’m Terrified Of You, 2004. Set in a dark blue night sky, a light reveals the post’s textured surface. In the upper left, ladder rungs fall from an abstracted precipice.

In Cursed or Worse, 2004, live and obsolete wires are trapped behind a twisting blue ribbon. Set in a burning orange sunset, one line dangles from his web in disrepair. Upon closer inspection, a spray of copper wire threatens to electrocute any interloper.

Brady Dollarhide was born in Oklahoma and received his BFA from the Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, FL (1997) and studied at the New York Studio Program. His first solo exhibition, I'm Only Now, was presented at Jessica Murray Projects in 2002. His work has been included at the Brooklyn Museum of Art and been reviewed in The New York Times and Art & Antiques. Dollarhide lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

UPCOMING

ANN PIBAL – November 19 through December 22, 2004

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