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Mark Kostabi
Painting & Sculpture
March 19 – April 16, 1988
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On the Edge, 1988
bronze
59 inches high
edition: 8
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Pandering to Feminism, 1988
bronze
13 inches high
edition: 8
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Venus, 1988
bronze
30 inches high
edition: 8
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Tide Gets the Dirt Out, 1988
bronze
24 inches high
edition: 8
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Climbing, 1988
bronze
30 inches high
edition: 8
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The Great Pacifier, 1988
bronze
36 inches high
edition: 8
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Prelude to a Pancake Breakfast, 1987
oil on canvas
84 x 68 inches
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Off the Books, 1987
oil on canvas
84 x 68 inches
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Click here for a PDF version of the following Press Release. |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 29, 1988
MARK KOSTABI
Painting and Sculpture
March 19 – April 16, 1988
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10-6; Monday by appointment
"Most artists steal their ideas; at least I pay for mine."
-Mark Kostabi
Mark Kostabi will exhibit new sculpture and painting in his second solo exhibition at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts.
The exhibition will feature a new series of bronze sculptures based on the featureless figures in Kosabi's drawings and paintings. There are fourteen sculptures ranging in size from 10 inches to a lifesize sculpture of Upheaval which depicts a corporate boardroom meeting between eight figures.
The recent paintings demonstrate Kostabi's willingness to experiment with media and canvas dimensions. His faceless "everyperson" mixes with a stream of consciousness images and found-object stencils.
The artist is assisted by an idea creator, a draftsperson, a color theorist, a team of painters, and a title creator leaving at once everything and nothing to Mark Kostabi, whose name is the only one to appear on a completed painting. This merging of a detached, mechanical paint-by-numbers technique with a broad range of imagination has resulted in the wide variety of paintings comprising this exhibition.
This spring, Abbeville Press will release a book titled Sadness Because the Video Rental Store Was Closed and Other Stories by Mark Kostabi (192 pages, 172 full-color illustrations, cloth bound). Mark Kostabi will also be featured on an episode of CBS's West 57th in March.
The public is invited to a reception for the artist on March 19 from 5-7 p.m. For more information and photographs, please contact Susan Yung at (212)226-3232.
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