Ronald Feldman Gallery

Ida Applebroog Cul-de-Sacs January 11 – February 15, 1986 Arts Arts Artnews
Pull Down the Shade, 1985 oil on canvas, 2 panels 86 x 60 inches Collection: Bayerische Staatsmaldesammlungen, Munich, Germany	Peel Me Like a Grape, 1985 oil on canvas, 2 panels 86 x 60 inches Collection: Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
I've Chosen Cyanide, 1985 oil on canvas, 5 panels 62 x 132 inches Collection: The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT	Two Women IV, 1985 oil on linen, 2 panels 72 x 74 inches
Mercer Street, 1985 oil on canvas 84 x 54 inches	Gates Place, 1985 oil on canvas 84 x 54 inches
Promise I Won't Die?, 1985 watercolor, gouache on treated paper 14 pieces, 97 x 95 inches overall Collection: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	What Did You Dream?, 1985 watercolor, gouache on treated paper 16 pieces, 95 x 105 inches overall
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 20, 1985 Ida Applebroog Cul – de – Sacs JANUARY 11 – FEBRUARY 15, 1986 GALLERY HOURS: TUES-SAT, 10-6 In an exhibition of new paintings opening Saturday, January 11th at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Ida Applebroog focuses upon feelings of entrapment – CUL-DE-SACS – situations from which there is no escape. Caught in these blind alleys, men and women, pictured in comforting portrayals of everyday life, face the imminence of growing old, of nuclear annihilation. Applebroog layers these images and scenes so that the story lines fade from one time zone into another. Past, present and future are merged, revealing worlds within worlds. On the surface, things still look alright; but dialogue fragments of "I've chosen cyanide", "It's nice to meet a liberal",' "God?s white, too", "Hurry up and die" punctuate the subterranean feelings of the 80's. In her series "Mirror Images", Applebroog rescues and recycles discarded art objects of our culture: paint-by-number works and Senior Center art class projects. By incorporating them into her work, they become reclaimed and eulogized. Her "Window Pieces" capture the viewer's almost prurient interest in the intimate actions of others. The partially raised shades conceal, even as they reveal, and let us enter the scene, even as they keep us out. In Applebroog's "Two Women" series, using her well-known gallows humor, the tradition of the provocative female is re-mapped into the metamorphoses of aging. Life is not art. Ida Applebroog has exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe, including individual exhibitions at the Chrysler Museum, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Rotterdam Arts Foundation. Her work was also included in "An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture" at the Museum of Modern Art. This is her fourth solo exhibition at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. The public is invited to a reception for Ms. Applebroog Saturday, January 11th from 5 to 7pm. For further information and publicity photographs contact Barbara Goldner at (212)226-3232.
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