fort gondo compound for the arts: Saturday, 8 June 2013
Edo Rosenblith: PINK
June 8 - July 6, 2013
Opening reception Saturday, June 8, 7-10 PM
With a launch of PINK, an artist book
PINK is a chronicle of a daily art practice written in graphic form. Comprised of several hundred sketchbook drawings created over the past two years, as well as a series of gouache paintings and photogravure prints, the exhibit charts the construction of a personal cosmology by the simplest
and most immediate of art-making tools: drawing. A fascination with ugliness, the grotesque and dark social satire informs these pieces, whose focus recurrently turns to the human face: wide-eyed, warped and awash in viscous tears. This compulsive point of study suggests a psychologically deep tradition from the totemic mo’ai of Easter Island and the eviscerating gaze of portraits by fellow Missourian James Edward Deeds (a.k.a. the “Electric Pencil”), to painterly influences such as Philip
Guston and Dana Schutz. Throughout Rosenblith’s work, the color pink prevails not as the precious, saccharine hue as it’s now popularly known, but as a color turned sour and raw, vulnerable and nauseously unsettling. It’s Sienese red perverted for a modern-day Renaissance, through which the
observable world is translated by the unhindered id-driven mind.
Opening receptions sponsored by Schlafly Beer. All events are free and open to the public.
Hours: Thursdays & Saturdays, 12-4 PM and by appointmen
fort gondo compound for the arts
3151 Cherokee Street
St. Louis, MO 63118
June 8 - July 6, 2013
Opening reception Saturday, June 8, 7-10 PM
With a launch of PINK, an artist book
PINK is a chronicle of a daily art practice written in graphic form. Comprised of several hundred sketchbook drawings created over the past two years, as well as a series of gouache paintings and photogravure prints, the exhibit charts the construction of a personal cosmology by the simplest
and most immediate of art-making tools: drawing. A fascination with ugliness, the grotesque and dark social satire informs these pieces, whose focus recurrently turns to the human face: wide-eyed, warped and awash in viscous tears. This compulsive point of study suggests a psychologically deep tradition from the totemic mo’ai of Easter Island and the eviscerating gaze of portraits by fellow Missourian James Edward Deeds (a.k.a. the “Electric Pencil”), to painterly influences such as Philip
Guston and Dana Schutz. Throughout Rosenblith’s work, the color pink prevails not as the precious, saccharine hue as it’s now popularly known, but as a color turned sour and raw, vulnerable and nauseously unsettling. It’s Sienese red perverted for a modern-day Renaissance, through which the
observable world is translated by the unhindered id-driven mind.
Opening receptions sponsored by Schlafly Beer. All events are free and open to the public.
Hours: Thursdays & Saturdays, 12-4 PM and by appointmen
fort gondo compound for the arts
3151 Cherokee Street
St. Louis, MO 63118
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