Thursday, January 22, 2009
HOWARD YEZERSKI GALLERY EXHIBITION - Feb 6 - Mar 13, 2009
L a u r e l S p a r k s
P l e a s u r e D o m e
February 6 - March 13, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 7th 5 - 7 pm
Howard Yezerski Gallery is pleased to present “Pleasure Dome”, a new series of abstract paintings by Laurel Sparks on view from February 6 – March 10, 2009. Inspired by the color and lunacy of queer experimental film from the sixties and seventies, this series embodies and disembodies decadent glamour. Like a scene from a Kenneth Anger film, mists of toxic color and puddles of glitter evoke a Dionysian atmosphere that attracts and repels.
As in previous work, silhouettes of Venetian chandeliers are festooned with radiant white and day-glo pours. Spectral forms emerge and dissolve within vividly patterned backgrounds. Like a botched Rorschach, symmetries fragment and contours burst into smears of punky color, pigment flecks, and glitter. Surfaces are either too empty or over decorated, juxtaposing raw canvas with brush marks, crusty marble dust, and gold and fecal blobs that ooze pom-poms, plastic objects and wads of paper.
Elegant, yet irreverent these paintings dare us to embrace their uncivilized beauty.
Image: Archangel, 2008, acrylic, silver enamel, marble dust, glitter, paper mache, small objects, feathers, markers pigment, unpainted canvas, 48 x 55"
Howard Yezerski Gallery
460 Harrison Ave.
Boston MA
617.262.0550
www.howardyezerskigallery.com
P l e a s u r e D o m e
February 6 - March 13, 2009
Opening Reception: Saturday, February 7th 5 - 7 pm
Howard Yezerski Gallery is pleased to present “Pleasure Dome”, a new series of abstract paintings by Laurel Sparks on view from February 6 – March 10, 2009. Inspired by the color and lunacy of queer experimental film from the sixties and seventies, this series embodies and disembodies decadent glamour. Like a scene from a Kenneth Anger film, mists of toxic color and puddles of glitter evoke a Dionysian atmosphere that attracts and repels.
As in previous work, silhouettes of Venetian chandeliers are festooned with radiant white and day-glo pours. Spectral forms emerge and dissolve within vividly patterned backgrounds. Like a botched Rorschach, symmetries fragment and contours burst into smears of punky color, pigment flecks, and glitter. Surfaces are either too empty or over decorated, juxtaposing raw canvas with brush marks, crusty marble dust, and gold and fecal blobs that ooze pom-poms, plastic objects and wads of paper.
Elegant, yet irreverent these paintings dare us to embrace their uncivilized beauty.
Image: Archangel, 2008, acrylic, silver enamel, marble dust, glitter, paper mache, small objects, feathers, markers pigment, unpainted canvas, 48 x 55"
Howard Yezerski Gallery
460 Harrison Ave.
Boston MA
617.262.0550
www.howardyezerskigallery.com
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