A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
5/27/2015 to 6/20/2015
Join us for our Opening
Friday, May 29 from 6-9 pmThe Body in Revue is reflected by works that clearly present the body: doll-like imagery, darkly reworked comic strips, compelling sculptures of cast-paper. Sometimes a rather malevolent figure peeks out of a corner piece; a nude woman drawn in dramatic perspective from above reaches her imploring hand toward the viewer. There are negative and positive profiles presented against geometric shapes, as well as legs and a face surface in richly layered montage of imagery. A mixed media collage combines the human visage with natural forms.And then there are the works that insinuate the body: a face emerges from ab- stract, linear forms, garlands of forms in a whimsical India ink drawing form a de- lightfully silly face and blurred, richly colored forms in a photograph can be seen as side-by-side robed figures. Similarly, a frieze of old-fashioned streetlamps have some of the anthropomorphic feeling of the bewitched brooms in the Sor- cerer's Apprentice section of Disney's Fantasia while other works refer more obliquely to the body: a print featuring hypnotic, radiating color patterns which calls to mind both the physical beating and emotional emanations of that vital organ.