AIRTIGHT
PLAN FOR KILLING
Adam Stennett,
Ryan McGinness, Damian Loeb, and Nate Lowman.
October 17 - November 29, 2003
Reception October 17, 6-8pm
The Buia Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of Airtight Plan for Killing, the gallery's premier New York artist exhibition, including works by Adam Stennett, Ryan McGinness, Damian Loeb, and Nate Lowman. The group of contemporary artists share in common an irreverent, dark and sometimes sarcastic perspective.
Sometimes contemplative, sometimes political, always slightly elusive, the work involved centers on figuration while placing emphasis on signs, tension, and the concept of the crucial moment:
Adam Stennett, as seen in "Three Mice with Foot," uses a highly charged photorealistic hand to develop intimate, unsettling, yet strangely beautiful scenes involving mice and rats, exploring and playing with the quiet moment before everything or nothing happens--the precarious pause that opens up possibility.
Ryan McGinness' "Hour of Power" and "untitled," (skateboard decks), demonstrate the privileging of typical situations, objects, and signifiers to arrive at ends beyond everyday expectations with playful, masochistic absurdity.
Damian Loeb in "D-H1," a young girl on couch nighttime interior, manipulates the continual barrage of film and media on the public, reassembling film images in oil on canvas to create strangely familiar yet unsettling images from collective pop-culture memory.
Nate Lowman's "untitled,"
(Brian Mitchell), referencing a kidnap situation that through
media
saturation reached mythic proportion, demonstrates his appropriation
and tricky re-manipulation of the rubber-necking mentality that
pervades mass culture. Through a sardonic lens, Lowman creates
a new, slightly twisted and intriguing comment on society.
The intangible yet heavily weighted elusive cloud surrounding each artist's work engages the viewer while determining the true common link amongst this group of artists, much like J.D. Salinger's now near-cult quote, "...airtight plan for killing..." from the short story "De Daumier-Smith's Blue Period."
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