FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Jessica Murray Projects is pleased to announce the first solo exhibition of paintings by Ann Pibal. Titled FLEX, this exhibition will open Friday, November 19, 2004 with a reception from 6 – 8 pm and will run through January 8, 2005. New gallery hours are Tuesday to Saturday, 11 – 6 pm. The gallery will be closed from December 23 - January 4.

Chevrons, unzipping stripes, and targets vibrate in chocolate, vintage rose and turquoise. Set on thin, diminutive aluminum panels, these intimately scaled abstractions, drawing on an alluring palette of home décor and fashion, suggest what the artist calls “a perpetually unstable future.” Pibal’s homespun minimalism explores abstraction’s power to summon a generative place between beauty and failure.

In Lodgenze, 2004, a rectangular shape wedges itself into her small flat panel, oscillating between flatness and dimensionality. Stacked stripes of pink, putty and yellow create the walls of a diamond fence that rises up and bends, attempting to contain some of the orange field. Falling back to flatness, this barrier becomes the lips of an open mouth while the shape suggests the tapered ends of a sucked-on candy with soft center.

Pibal offers a gray landscape-shaped panel punctuated by a floating target/sun in Drifter, 2004. Concentric circles of molten orange and cool charcoal pulse and float on the field, its mass gaining weight as it hangs heavy towards the bottom of the panel.

Ann Pibal received her BA from St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN (1991) and her MFA in Painting from the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA (1995). Pibal's work has been included in exhibitions at MASS MOCA (North Adams, MA), the Albright Knox Art Museum (Buffalo, NY), The Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore College (Saratoga Springs, NY), and the Drawing Center (New York, NY). Pibal has been awarded artist residencies at Yaddo (2004), Cité International des Arts, Paris (2002), and the MacDowell Colony (2001).

For more information, please contact the gallery at 212 633 9606 or info@jessicamurrayprojects.com.

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