 It Takes A Lot To Laugh, 2005 Acrylic, glitter & flocking on canvas, 72 x 60 in (182.9 x 152.4 cm) Nancy Drew More Today Than Yesterday Roebling Hall is very pleased to present "More Today Than Yesterday", an exhibition of the paintings of Nancy Drew. For her second solo exhibition, Nancy Drew ups the ante on her sparkling and fuzzy soft renditions of the modern masters. Aptly titled, "More Today Than Yesterday", Drew continues to riff on and refashion the once avant-garde works of mid-century mega stars, which have now become the pillars of museum collections and the archetypal paintings of a bygone era. Revisiting the likes of Clifford Still, Jackson Pollock, Jasper Johns and Lucio Fontana, among others, Drew packs a visual punch that echoes back and forth between past and present. On the one hand, Drew mines the iconic significance and magnetic power of the past by reworking undeniably recognizable masterpieces. At the same time, the works pop forward into the present through her use of uncharacteristic materials such as glitter, flocking and Swarovski crystals. The upfront and in-your-face flashiness of the works give them a contemporary bling, in contrast to the staid stature of the original works on which she riffs. In the "Now & Then" series, Drew skews and twists the rigorous grids of Mondrian into dynamic distortions of what they once were. Expanding her range of scale and amping up the color combinations of her glitter and flocking, Drew pushes past the territories of appropriation and reverence, totally transforming the referenced works into scintillating, luscious paintings very much her own. Nancy Drew recently exhibited in "Open House: Brooklyn Art Today" at the Brooklyn Museum. Her work was included in "Repeat Performance" at Artists Space in New York, as well as "BQE" at White Box, New York. Exhibition: May 20 - June 18, 2005 Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 10 am - 6 pm or by appointment Roebling Hall 606 West 26th Street USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 929 8180 Email info@roeblinghall.com www.roeblinghall.com |
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