![]() Sites, subjects, and methods of observation are critical to each artist’s visual language: planted fields, elevations seen from an airplane window, gradations of color in a sky reflected on a watery plane, shapes glanced at through apertures between buildings, or the puzzle of shapes in a tapestry-like world are some of the inspirations for the paintings shown here. Although we may not recognize the specific motif inferred (landscape, night sky, city, etc.) the authority of perception is tangible. Falling along a continuum between abstraction and representation they evoke a strong sense of place in the everyday world. The paintings in this exhibition, SITE/SIGHT, are rooted in direct observation and are influenced by each artist’s perceptual practice and long-cultivated process of close study. Opening reception: Saturday 29 July, 5-8pm To give voice to a larger community, FLAG put out an open call for artist submissions that received 400+ proposals from around the world, and accounts for over half of the artists featured in the exhibition. In the wake of the 2016 presidential election, where news media was deemed the “the enemy of the people,” and The New York Times directly attacked and labeled as “fake news,” FLAG began developing an exhibition examining how seminal artists, such as Robert Gober, Ellsworth Kelly, Lorraine O’Grady, Fred Tomaselli, and others, who have used and been inspired by this newspaper in their practice. This chronicle of geopolitical and local issues, tragedies, human interest stories, and trends in culture, serves as both a source of inspiration and medium for artists to assert their perspectives on the state of the world. Reading The New York Times is embedded in many people’s daily routines. The exhibition uses The New York Times as its point of departure and features over 80 artists, artist duos, and collectives who use the “paper of record” to address and reframe issues that impact our everyday lives. The FLAG Art Foundation presents The Times from June 1 – August 11, 2017, on its 9th floor gallery. Her monoprints, monotypes and solarplate prints epitomize her spontaneous and daring use of color and form. This gallery-wide exhibit explores Mason’s adventurous approach to contemporary printmaking. Giddings Fine Arts is pleased to offer a survey of Emily Mason’s prints from 1985 – 2016. ![]() If a tinge of red-orange reveals itself in the registration we read it not as a flaw, but as a brightly colored wink from Mason herself. ![]() ![]() She embraces unique states, giving each work its own space. Color, shape, and improvisational gesture are printed upon one another until the image is resolved in its final pass through the press. What is common to all is that they start with one image on the first plate and end with a cohesive intense exchange between what we see and what lies beneath. The exhibit represents several different printmaking techniques. Each printer offers individual direction which Mason modifies or personalizes to further stretch the boundaries of her gestures and color vocabulary. She and her work will also be featured in the book ‘Free Spirits’ by Rosie Osborne, to be published next week.įor the past thirty-two years Emily Mason has collaborated with five master printers to create works of a singular chromatic intensity, distinguishing and defining her prints as unique. Lawlor is currently preparing for a solo exhibition at Fox/Jensen/McCrory Gallery in Auckland, NZ, for next spring. She was one of three painters showcased in the Space K exhibition ‘British Painting 2019’ in Seoul, South Korea, this summer. Lawlor has exhibited extensively internationally over the last twenty years recent exhibitions of note include a presentation at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum, ‘Maleri:nu (Paint:now)’, in Copenhagen in 2016 a substantial solo exhibition at the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Latvia in 2017 as well as recent solo exhibitions at Rod Barton, Brussels (2016), Espacio Valverde, Madrid (2018), Fifi Projects, Mexico (2018), Fox/Jensen Gallery, Australia (2018), and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York (2019). Lawlor lived in France from 1987 to 2013, and holds a BA in History of Art and Archaeology from the University of Paris IV – la Sorbonne (1992). Erin Lawlor was born in Epping, UK in 1969.
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