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Imperfect Containers

A group show featuring Gina Malek, Nicole Maloof, Lorella Paleni, and Leah Moskowitz, curated by Christina Papanicolaou

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On View: 12.9.15 - 1.10.16

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Opening Reception: Wed, 12.9, 6-8pm

 

E.TAY Gallery is pleased to present Imperfect Containers, a group show featuring Gina Malek, Nicole Maloof, Leah Moskowitz, and Lorella Paleni. The show is a look into the recent work of four artists living and making in relative proximity. Their ardent discourse revolves around navigations of the body: what defines it, what doesn't, and the constructs - both slippery & intractable - that get slung upon it. Imperfect Containers brings together works that point to this shared undertaking, encompassing

languages of drawing, painting, printmaking, and photography.

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Gina Malek is drawn to hushed energy and the accumulated weight of a household; to people who spend a lot of time in one place, who sit in a particular chair and are never quite at ease. In the work, impressions are gathered and remembered sensations are smoked out through the act of painting.

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Nicole Maloof draws stories, using brightly colored line to describe and reassess the boundaries and actions of her subjects. She creates a cast of actors through a play of human form, challenging the limited representations often encountered in popular culture. Maloof then steeps her subjects in a cross-referencing of science, postcolonialism, natural history, double entendre, and questions of gender in order to synthesize 
a new mythology that disrupts the stories that govern our present reality.

 

Leah Moskowitz understands photography as an experience of time made visible - made into a picture, materialized in sculpture, or activated by way of performance. Her photographs work through anticipation & material changes in whether. 

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Lorella Paleni paints, draws and creates images that explore human/animal relationships, ideas of otherness and language validity. An intertwining of parts, flesh, skin, sweat, smell. Lumps of meat. The itching, noise of gnashing teeth and pain. Blood, laugh, a sharp burn like hot ashes pressing over the skin. The loneliness of bodies. 

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