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Black Gold
Carrie MoyerNew Paintings
Kelly Kaczynski - Project Room
April 20 - May 19, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, April 20, 2007, 6-9pm
CHICAGO, IL -- rowlandcontemporary is pleased to present Carrie Moyer's Black Gold. In her first exhibition in Chicago and her first solo exhibition with the gallery, Moyer draws on historical and stylistic conceits and saturates her paintings with intricate meaning. Kelly Kaczynski joins us in the Project Room to present a group of objects that explore the relationship between land and souvenir, while simultaneously dabbling in mythology.
Black Gold
Like geographical stratum, Carrie Moyer's acrylic on canvas paintings are a resolute incarnation of female forms, graphic design, color-field abstraction and especially 1970's feminist art. Through the interplay of pure color, glitter and transparent veils of poured acrylic, Moyer imbues her paintings with forms that resonate with the strangeness and preliterate opaqueness of archaic sculpture.
Delivered through a contemporary lens, her tongue-in-cheek investigations are playfully tweaked in paintings that place abstracted symbols within flat, poster-like landscapes worthy of a 1960s Supergraphic.
Fresh from a highly successful springtime in New York, Moyer's paintings reveal themselves to be more than the sum of their parts and are not to be missed. Look through the layers, read between the lines, and mine the history; here you'll find an impressive painter in full control.
Project Room
Known for installations incorporating common building materials that suggest landscapes while interweaving art historical referents, Kelly Kaczynski continues her investigation of the land by creating objects from items extracted directly from it. Logs, sticks and bark take on new meaning as they become the physical embodiment of a land-based history, and consequently, extend the landscape by integrating it into a new kind of history, a souvenir of the domestic kind.
Toying with theatrical mythos, Kaczynski fashions a twig into a salt repository; a set of chicken bones become spoons. "I would say that the objects are poetic. They are simple and embedded with history, but rely on a new future to take hold."
Carrie Moyer received her MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate Center for the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, MA from New York Institute of Technology, and BFA from Pratt Institute, NY. Recent exhibitions include CANADA Gallery, NY, Hunt Gallery, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA, and Samson Projects, Boston, MA. Moyer is co-founder of Dyke Action Machine!, an activist public art collaboration that critiques mainstream culture. DAM! Projects have been anthologized in several books and included in exhibitions across the US and Europe. Moyer has held residencies at Wattis Artists Residency at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA and The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME. Moyer is also a writer whose recent article Feminist Art: VIVA was published in the March issue of Modern Painters.
Kelly Kaczynski received her MFA from The Milton Avery Graduate Center for the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, and her BA from The Evergreen State College. Olympia, WA. She has exhibited at University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Triple Candie, New York, NY, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA, the Boston Public Library, Boston, MA, and Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA. Her work has been reviewed in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, and Art New England.
