SUMMER EXHIBITION
August 5th - August 22nd, 2003
Tuesday-Friday 10am - 6pm

UPSTAIRS: MISAKI KAWAI

Kenny Schachter ConTEMPorary
14 Charles Lane, NYC 10014
t. 212 807-6669 f. 645-074
www.RoveTV.net schachter@mindspring.com

Between West and Washington Streets Perry and Charles Streets


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

A new show at conTEMPorary throughout August brings together four wildly energetic artists.

Upstairs:

A fresh installation of Misaki Kawai’s warm, humorous dolls—this time, they romp around at garden picnics and are carried into the sky by gently lolling balloons. Stitched fabric and cardboard effigies of Kawai, the Beatles, and Kenny himself totter and careen around the plush, somatic dreamworld that Kawai invents, monitoring the intricate gages of stitched felt aircraft or cruising at the helm of a tin-foil convertible. Also a series of Kawai’s equally playful drawings on display.

 

Downstairs:

Brendan Cass whips up a whirlwind tour of Europe, but in Cass’ hands, docile postcard imagery undergoes a raucous transformation. Riviera waters glitter next to skittle-toned hotels, while blue-tipped basilicas leer like ripe plums in the throes of Cass’ muscular dynamism.

Graham Gillmore’s large, laquered, richly pigmented surfaces provide the hyper-refined arena in which printed, carved words and abstract, visceral shapes strategize together. Schools of witty, playful words travel through the subaquatic reeds of Gillmore’s wryly meandering brushstroke. Gillmore looks forward to a solo show at conTEMPorary this Fall.

Rory MacArthur’s thick, layered, styrofoam constructions meld opposites: dense, organic shapes are painted in space-age neons, and hilariously bright paint is worked into polite filigrees. The final product is impeccably polished yet visually explosive, a brassy trumpet blare by a technical maestro.

J. Langbein

 

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