 Lamar Peterson: Site Seeing, 2005 Acrylic and gouache on paper, 20 x 25 inches Lamar Peterson, Pablo Vargas Lugo & Nicole Cherubini Samson Projects is pleased to present an exhibition that dissects the often contradictory space between high art and popular culture. The three artists selected challenge notions of tradition and taste. Both Lamar Peterson and Nicole Cherubini, who live and work in Brooklyn, are clearly influenced by our contemporary pop culture. Vargas Lugo, an established artist living in Mexico City, has incorporated an element of international pop with his new work - new spray painted stencils. Nicole Cherubini returns home to Boston with a series of sculptures that manifest as large over-decorated, over-adorned, luxuriant vessel forms. Entitled "G-Pots" (gosh, ghetto, gavon, goomba, guinea, glamour, g's, g-spot, gumar, gangsta, girlfriend etc.), Cherubini places her work within contemporary pop-culture and it's recurring themes of excess and abundance. Her work makes use of ceramic, fake gold and silver jewelry, chains, fur, luster, plexi-glass and paint. The "G-pots" seek to challenge the known structure of ideas of taste, socio-economics, display and pop-culture. Cherubini will participate in a group show at The Sculpture Center in Long Island City, "Make it Now: New Sculpture in New York". At 29, Lamar Peterson calls himself as a deadpan poet of cartoonish surrealism and graphic pizzazz. Peterson examines the romantic notion of the American dream with a lingering air of cynicism. Influenced by popular culture, animation, and junk mail, he mixes the surreal with the mundane. This series of acrylic and gouache on paper incorporates bright saturated Florida colors; his first venture out of the south was to attend graduate school at RISD. Peterson arrived on the art scene last year via a pair of group shows in New York, followed by solo outings on both coasts and now by his inclusion as the youngest artist in Site Santa Fe's biennial. The third artist in this show is Pablo Vargas Lugo, one of the most interesting contemporary voices coming from Mexico City. Vargas Lugo is best known for his compositions created by cutting and layering variously colored pieces of paper. In his new body of work, Vargas Lugo spray paints on wood using paper stencils. While the stencils are done with the usual attention to detail and craftsmanship of his previous work, the spray paint introduces an element of chance and produces shifts in the image that are nowhere within the original plan of work. His images resemble in composition the tight organization of a postage stamp, blown out of proportion, juxtaposing careful design with a medium that introduces an element of uncertainty and haphazardness. His work has been shown extensively and is included in collections in Mexico, Europe and the USA. Exhibition: April 1 - May 1, 2005 Gallery hours: Tue-Sun 12 - 6 pm and by appointment Samson Projects 450 Harrison Avenue Storefront 63 USA-Boston, MA 02118 Telephone +1 617 357 7177 Fax +1 617 357 5559 Email samson@samsonprojects.com www.samsonprojects.com |
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