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works by Claire Jackel and Robert Minervini |
Nov 14 - Dec 11, 2009 |
CLAIRE JACKEL’S re-creations of disasters from news media personalize events that, in a
desensitized state, we relegate to the land of statistics. Her paper models evoke the familiar
(airplanes, buses, trains, suburban neighborhoods and city blocks) seen through a lens of fragility.
The airplane is almost entirely burned to cinders; the city is suspended upside-down, anchored
in its own rubble. The process, Jackel states, “is a meditation on issues of control, destructive
potential, memory, and social anxieties.” ROBERT MINERVINI’S acrylic paintings challenge notions of beauty typically assigned to the natural world. His work examines the convergence of nature and industry while drawing on the language of 19th century landscape painting. Highly saturated depictions of wilderness sit in contrast to urban scenes executed in layered washes of color. Using a “highly plasticized approach to color and form,” Minervini wishes to question “aspects of beauty and aesthetics associated with the pictorial depiction of nature as well as the artifice of pictorial representation itself.” |
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