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For Immediate Release: June 29, 2001

SUMMER EXHIBITION:
PAINTERS AND PRINTS

JUNE 29 – AUGUST 3

The Feldman Gallery will exhibit paintings and prints by artists associated with the gallery. The artists are Ida Applebroog, Conrad Atkinson, Nancy Chunn, David Clarkson, Carl Fudge, Leon Golub, Komar & Melamid, Bruce Pearson, Clemens Weiss, and Andy Warhol. The exhibition includes recent work as well as paintings from as early as 1964. The exhibition provides the opportunity to compare the processes of painting and printmaking by artists who have mastered both media.

Works by Ida Applebroog include a multi-paneled painting, 1950, from the Living Series (1995-96) and a recent print created for the organization, Art for Animals. Leon Golub is represented by Champ de Bataille, a monumental work from 1964 in which he first began to experiment with his current working methods. Horn of Plenty, 1989, by Komar & Melamid, depicts Karl Marx, McDonalds, and the working men of Bayonne.

Carl Fudge will exhibit the cat both dead & alive, a reconfiguration of images from erotic Japanese woodcuts, and Rhapsody Spray (2), a silkscreen that was recently included in survey exhibition of computerization at the Whitney Museum of Art. Bruce Pearson will exhibit Silenus, a Styrofoam wall relief based on text transformed to the point of indecipherability and subliminal meaning.

Committed to contemporary political issues, Conrad Atkinson and Nancy Chunn take as their source the daily news. In Wall Street Journal, 1985, Atkinson substitutes headlines depicting painters, musicians, and literary figures as powerful world leaders. A new painting by Chunn, Scandal, is a cacophony of images relating to our previous president. Also on exhibit are two prints by Chunn, based on The New York Times, created for the Gore campaign.

Both the painting, Forked Lightening at Sunset, 2000, and a laminated computer print by David Clarkson are imaginary landscapes that relate to cinematic technology. Works by Clemens Weiss include Man and Woman, oil on wood, from 1980 and etchings from 1993.

Works by Andy Warhol include paintings and prints of the same subjects from the Ads series of 1985 in which Warhol transformed original advertising images into a Pop celebration of American consumerism. Unique trial proof screenprints by Warhol will be exhibited as well.

Gallery Summer Hours: Monday – Thursday, 10:00 – 6:00. Friday, 10:00 – 3:00. For information, contact Amy Bannon at (212) 226-3232 or Amy@feldmangallery.com.