ON VIEW
DAVID MCDONOUGH
HOT WATER
February 22 - April 4, 2020
ABOUT THE ARTIST
David McDonough is an artist, special educator and public high school teacher. He lives with his wife and young son in Queens, NY. David holds a BA in art from Brooklyn College, and an MS Ed. in teaching urban adolescents with disabilities from LIU Brooklyn. He has shown nationally and internationally, and keeps a studio in Brooklyn, NY.
ARTIST STATEMENT
David McDonough’s paintings float somewhere between the abstract and the representational. Using a repeated cast of characters and varying combinations of paint moves, he creates images that are strangely flat, oddly colored, densely layered, and full of subtle movement.
The work derives its energy from the materials used: thick glossy paint and dark matte charcoal congeal on the canvases in ways that are unpredictable and exciting to follow. The abstract forms are almost recognizable, yet you’re never sure you know exactly what they are. In allowing the viewer to ascribe their own personal meaning to these forms, he leaves the narrative open to interpretation.
Together, the exuberant application of paint materials and simple but mysterious narratives are a celebration of the wonder and mystery of looking and living.
OPENING RECEPTION
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EXHIBITION SPOTLIGHT
PAST EXHIBITIONS
Karen Lederer
Juice Box
ON VIEW
September 1 - November 16, 2019
OPENING RECEPTION
September 21, 2019
Karen Lederer’s paintings are filled with patterns reminiscent of Marimekko, references to her New York City upbringing, reproductions of iconic artworks, and signs of the current political moment. Captured at a close range evocative of an Instagram photo, the scenes depict a distinct image with paint. Both flat and rendered, the work conveys a spatial disorientation that denies stability. By mixing diverse processes in each piece, she seeks to create environments that are at once constructed and artificial, yet private and personal.
Theda Sandiford
Women of Wonder
ON VIEW
February 26th - April 7, 2019
OPENING RECEPTION
March 12, 2019
A pure celebration of expression, music, femininity, and belief in oneself. A confirmation of life repeated as a cannon of ‘I am who I am.’ We often travel to the corners of the planet looking for safe places to BE. When what is actually necessary is a declaration: “We are our own selves!” There is a place for all of our being; the sexy, the demure, the loud and the reticent. On our own terms of being in our own skin when and how we need to be. Ella, Eartha, Grace, Diahann, Billie, and Nina made way for the Cardi’s, Beyonce’s and Nikki’s of this world. We all fit and there is plenty of room for us. When we make room for ourselves.
Student Show
January 2019
ON VIEW
September 1 - November 16, 2019
OPENING RECEPTION
September 12
Karen Lederer’s paintings are filled with patterns reminiscent of Marimekko, references to her New York City upbringing, reproductions of iconic artworks, and signs of the current political moment. Captured at a close range evocative of an Instagram photo, the scenes depict a distinct image with paint. Both flat and rendered, the work conveys a spatial disorientation that denies stability. By mixing diverse processes in each piece, she seeks to create environments that are at once constructed and artificial, yet private and personal.
Theodore Sefcik
Reason Given
ON VIEW
September 12 - November 15, 2018
OPENING RECEPTION
September 20, 2018
Theodore Sefcik is known for his enigmatic animations, which combine the aesthetics of primitive computer graphics with early color video art. Presented on atypical, repurposed screens, his videos range from scenes of organic body-horror to inscrutable assembly lines and humanoid dancers. Sefcik’s videos and glitched AI-assisted digital photographs have been exhibited in solo and group shows in New York, Miami and Malmo, Sweden. Sefcik also performs original compositions, songs and spoken word pieces as RAXTSFK.
Alan Prazniak
Leave Luck to Heaven
ON VIEW
April 16 - May 31, 2018
OPENING RECEPTION
May 5, 2018
Alan Prazniak’s paintings are a conflation of drawings, memories of hikes, video games, books, and songs. He plays with the insane locus of The World Before (or after) Humans, talked down by the intimacy of drawing and the confusion between vista and vignette. He thinks a lot about safe spaces, such as nests and thing that seem to have, at best, a diminishing social value, but are deeply important to imagination and love. Additionally, he tries to hone fantasy, romance, and play when creating.