Fractured
in Aspect
July 25th - August 17th, 2007
Sam Moyer
Shane Aslan Selzer
Amy Yao
Patricia Treib
Kerstin Brätsch
and
David Benjamin Sherry
Andrew Kreps Gallery is pleased to present a group show featuring the work of
six young artists working and living in New York City. The show is broken into
two parts, the photography of Sam Moyer, sculptural installations by Shane Aslan
Selzer, and Amy Yao, and painting by Patricia Treib and Kerstin Brätsch will
be installed in the front gallery, while a photographic installation by David
Benjamin Sherry will be in a second.
Trained as a sculptor, Sam Moyer's photographs feature an event. An inexplicable
explosion of white steam or gas obscures the apparatus from which it flows:
a generator, smoke machine and heavy-duty construction light. In contrast to
the work of photographer Gregory Crewdson, it is a low-fi happening in the middle
of a forest, without an audience, obscuring the subjectivity of the viewer.
Also using quotidian materials such as linoleum, magnets and cutlery, Shane
Aslan Selzer's sculptures obscure and re-contextualize their media so that completely
new objects emerge, but still feel recognizable - up-ending the unsettling experience
of the intangible with the comfort of recognition.
The minimal installations that characterize Amy Yao's work belie their own inherent
and pressing political questions. A narrow strip of glass pins a torn piece
of the New York Times to the gallery wall interrogating the disposability
of news, and the juxtaposition of war and death with consumerist images. Patricia
Treib's work begins with classical painting. Identifying a small piece of the
work, Treib begins a systematic, yet organic abstraction. The large-scale paintings
that emerge hover between abstraction and figuration.
Kerstin Brätsch's installations are comprised of large oil paintings on paper
that are monumental in size and shelving units, that act as a three-dimensional
extension of the paintings. These units feature 'zines that are comprised of
images that press the abilities of this technology, having been Xeroxed so many
times, that they become completely abstractedÖand even magical. The work of
David Benjamin Sherry shares this quality but combines it with a theatricality
- an image of a dramatically lit bunch of grapes with semen dripping from the
bottom is turned upside-down, obscuring its inherent sexual overtones. Recalling
the work of Kenneth Anger, this sexuality is intermixed with themes of the occult.
The exhibition will be on view from July 25th through August 17th, Monday through
Friday. The opening reception will take place on Wednesday, July 25th from 6-8.
For further information, including image requests, please contact Erin Somerville
at 212.741.8849.
