COMPLEX COLLISIONS Opening & Panel Discussion

NEW WORKS FROM DURKIN & MARTY

Locus Media Gallery presents COMPLEX COLLISIONS, a two-person exhibition of new paintings and works on paper by the artists JULIE DURKIN and BOB MARTY. December 4, 2003 through January 9, 2004. Opening reception December 4th 6pm-9pm.

JULIE DURKIN's oil paintings are performances, capturing the play of a young woman in a world of glamour, gesture and color. The paint is poured, splashed, splattered and smeared and gives rise to textures both flat and glossy. Her brush is driven by gender and her palette runs hot and cold. The work is cerebral, complicated and layered; mostly, it arouses our senses.

BOB MARTY uses an "image-bank" to paint, draw, sculpt, videotape, photograph and extract fresh metaphors, myths and narratives from a myriad of sources. More than being mixed, his media collides, as do the worlds of refinement and primitivism he so amply evokes. Using a language that is equally arcane and modern, Marty synthesizes the fruits of these processes inside wooden structures made from found elements; he propels us beyond everyday perceptions into a world of dreams and intuition; wisdom and faith.

Panel discussion on December 11th 7pm with Phoebe Hoban, Katherine Chapin, John Bowman, Lisa Corinne Davis, and Carter Ratcliff. Issues include the tension between cognition and intuition in creating art, the dynamics of high and low culture, the combining of tradition and the new, gender interests and much more.

For more information please contact: Marcia G. Yerman LOCUS MEDIA GALLERY (212) 925-3883
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