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JESSICA MURRAY PROJECTS New Gallery Hours: Thursday through Monday, 12 – 6 PM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Jessica Murray Projects is pleased to announce Let Go
by Jackie Gendel,
and From the Woolworth Building by Karina
Aguilera Skvirsky. Both exhibitions will open Friday, October
17 with a reception from 7-10 PM and will run through November 24.
Jackie Gendel’s encaustic paintings explore abstraction as a psychological stage where the development of her characters unfolds. Investigating the relationship between internal imaginative or dream states and the external experiences of everyday life, Gendel produces a visual language that mixes subconscious and conscious worlds. Far Away, made up almost entirely of thin horizontal lines, combines abstraction with figuration. Inscribing a large girlish-woman sleeping or floating at the bottom of the panel, the artist creates an environment that is equally confining and infinite. Beyond the main figure, mountains rise up as if to describe other bodies in the distance--summits read as shoulders and hips. In the foreground, a bed of repetitive lines scratched into the wax invites meditation by the viewer. This is Jackie Gendel’s first solo exhibition in New York. Her work was also been included at White Columns (2001). She received her BFA from the Washington University (1996) and her MFA from Yale University (1998), where she was awarded the Richard Dixon Welling Prize. More recently, she has been nominated for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Biennial Award. Gendel lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. DRAWING ROOM Karina Aguilera Skvirsky creates manipulated photographs, using passages of both color and black and white, which capture a striking yet uncomfortable sense of memory’s relationship to architecture. This series--From the Woolworth Building--begins with the artist’s empty, temporary studio overlooking such icons as the Brooklyn Bridge, and the US Court House, and arguably the most inescapable sight, Ground Zero. Shooting an image looking out towards the gaping hole, the artist has transfigured the color of the window frame so it gleams like gold, memorializing the sight. The empty space is illuminated while the rest of the room remains in darkness. Karina Aguilera Skvirsky’s work has been seen at the Bronx Museum and Brooke Alexander Gallery (New York). She was an artist in residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council and will be included in the 10th Biennial of the Moving Image at the Centre pour l’image contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland, this fall. |
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