 Who Sunk My Battleship, 2004 Oil on canvas, 54 x 48 inches Emily Sartor Painitings Massimo Audiello to present the first solo New York show of Emily Sartor. Emily Sartor was born in Louisiana and grew up in a home along the wooded bank of a river. When viewing her lusciously dramatic paintings there is an unavoidable connection to the location of her childhood home and a sensibility remote and lost in a time, a place where America had more of a natural flavor. Her paintings are stories of distance and disaster. She depicts landscapes ravished, overwhelmed, exaggerated, and threatened, in perilous climax. She paints them with a palette that ranges from oily density to gouache splashes, creating a sense of both motion and depth. In the depiction of these tumultuous situations, the suspense preceding, or the aftermath is favored to the actual cause. The viewer is brought to the edge of the happening, or safely placed at bird's eye view, where danger becomes more like a spectacle. How much these dramatic settings have to do with a contingent reality or personal fantasy is left up to the viewer. Certainly danger and fear are topics embedded in our tissue lately through an onslaught of media persuasion and political propaganda. In Sartor's work such collective fears find an ironic exorcism and the explosions depicted play on the ambiguity of beauty, danger and seduction. Is her work the expression of an anguished mind? Are the images a metaphor for a submerged fiery sensuality? Are they the longing for a land and a time which no longer exist? These and many more questions will be triggered by this new and daring work. Exhibition: March 3 - April 30, 2005 Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat 11 am - 6 pm Massimo Audiello Gallery 526 West 26th Street No. 519 New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 675 9082 Fax +1 212 675 8680 Email info@massimoaudiello.com www.massimoaudiello.com |
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