The Gallery at LPR: HIGHLIGHTS
Opens June 7
a part of LPR X 5
featuring Kate Casanova, Itamar Jobani, Edina Tokodi, Leah Yerpe, Jonathan Auchs, and 3MB: Macaulay Culkin, Adam Green, Toby Goodshank
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Kate Casanova:
Growing up on the Minnesota/Canadian border surrounded by trees and water, my visual vocabulary assembled itself from snake nests, rabbit’s fur and icicles. My family owned sled dogs instead of a television. On one of our sled dog runs, we came across a fresh wolf kill. All that remained was a ten foot swath of red and a few tufts of deer fur punctuating the crisp, glistening snow. It is images like these that define the unnerving beauty I strive to unearth in my art.
I am fascinated by human perceptions of nature and draw on conventions such as the curiosity cabinet, the expedition, the nature book, and the natural history museum for inspiration. I work with both material and living organisms to create visual experiences in which sensation trumps language. In my surreal creations, fungi grow out of furniture, crustaceans crawl on heads, and land masses float. I strive to create poetic moments that examine our human relationship to the natural world.
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Itamar Jobani:
Itamar Jobani official site
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Edina Tokodi:
Edina Tokodi official site
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Leah Yerpe:
Born in 1985, Leah grew up in the rural backwoods of upstate New York, in a town with a single stop sign. Naturally, she moved to the biggest, fastest city in the USA where she received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute in 2009. Since then, her work has been featured in numerous exhibitions in galleries, museums, and art fairs, and discussed in publications including The Paris Review, PMc Magazine, and Visual Overture. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
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3MB: Macaulay Culkin, Adam Green, Toby Goodshank:
Working in a truly collaborative style, 3MB takes the phrase “art collective” seriously. These works are collectively rendered. This is not a group show. These paintings are pulled from the collective consciousness of the individuals and their shared — though often separate — experiences. Though they work without a formula, Toby Goodshank explains their process saying, “We all attack the canvas simultaneously.” Adam Green elaborates that these works are born from “surreal, cartoony, and post-modern ideas that were floating around, and we didn’t feel ashamed to illustrate them, as though we were playing a game together.”
Leah Yerpe: Stellify – March 7 – June 6, 2013
3MB: Macaulay Culkin, Adam Green, and Toby Goodshank: “Leisure Inferno” – September 14, 2012 – March 4, 2013
Cedric Smith: “Cache-Misere” – September 24th, 2010 – December 28th, 2010
Alexander Kaletski: “Life of the Party” – June 22nd, 2010 – September 7th, 2010
David Ellis: Recollect – November 10, 2009 – December 2009
Itamar Jobani: “Tectonic Collisions” – May 27, 2009 – October10, 2009
Ofri Cnanni: “A Tale of Ends – January 21, 2009 – April 13, 2009
Chuck Close and Devorah Sperber: “Through the Looking Glass: Image and Process Deconstructed” – September 23, 2008 – December 9, 2008
