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Ilene Sunshine

Ilene Sunshine  Wall    branches, plastic bags   
13.5 feet square, site specific

Ilene Sunshine

Ilene Sunshine  New Vein #39   
leaf, gesso, plastic bag, thread on paper    12 x 9 inches

Valeri Larko

Valeri Larko  Wrought Iron Chair    oil on linen    42 x 52 inches

Matthew Magee

Matthew Magee  Green Standard
detergent bottles, wire    137 x 42.5 inches

Dan Ford

Dan Ford  Sunrise with Sea Monster
oil on canvas    36 x 48 inches

G R E E N
September 14 - October 21, 2007
Opening Reception:
Friday, Sept. 14, 6-9 pm
4 artists respond poetically
to environmental concerns:
 
ILENE SUNSHINE
large scale site specific installation
 
VALERI LARKO
paintings
 
MATTHEW MAGEE
site specific window installation
 
DAN FORD
paintings
 

GREEN features the work of four artists who respond to environmental concerns with wit and poetics.
 
Ilene Sunshine brings the outdoors in with her use of twigs and branches and cleverly reimagines the detritus of found plastic bags in a colorful large scale site specific installation which bisects the gallery space creating a wall "of air" and pays homage to and playfully subverts formal concerns of mid century modernism and color field painting.
 
Matthew Magee's large site specific window installation also makes use of found plastic and references early modernists constructions. His vibrant green mobile is made entirely of recycled detergent bottles cut and arranged in a waterfall of green shapes that allude to bones and hieroglyphics.
 
Valeri Larko in her Salvage Yard series; paints heaps of garbage in beautiful operatic jumbles of texture and subtle color.
 
Dan Ford's lush romantic paintings are both an homage to the 19th century painter Joseph Mallord William Turner and a wry comment on our contemporary conflicted relationship to oil dependency.
 
The works of each of these artists, while not being polemically political reimagine the refuse of our consumer culture and our love affair with petrochemicals to offer a creative and hopeful reinvention of our future.

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