Blog #16. December 26, 2022 by catherineabramsartworks.com
ANNA WEYANT's Show at the Gagosian Gallery,
960 Madison Ave., NYC, Nov. 3-Dec 23, 2022
Between Terror and Hilarity
Mark Twain said something about humor being “tragedy plus time.” If there’s humor in my work, it probably goes hand in hand with some sort of weird misery.
Ο Μαρκ Τουεην ειπε οτι το χιουμορ ειναι "τραγωδια συν το περασμα του χρονου". Η Αννα Γουεηαντ λεει αν υπαρχει χιουμορ στα εργα μου, ισως συνδεεται με μια παραξενη μιζερια.
—Anna Weyant
Quote from Gagosian Gallery Press release:
...An exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Anna Weyant in New York... .
Baby, It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over features seven new paintings along with ten new drawings. The exhibition, which sees Weyant further develop the aesthetics and themes of her previous work, takes its title from a song by Lenny Kravitz—which in turn repeats Yogi Berra’s aphorism—and riffs in self-aware fashion on popular expectations of a young artist’s career trajectory. Many of the exhibited portraits depict the same figure in two slightly different poses, suggesting subtly divergent aspects of the same persona and making reference to the biblical doubled image. The paintings hang on a lush green velvet backdrop, supplied by design house F. Schumacher & Co., which resonates with the images’ hint of camp theatricality.
Weyant’s precisely rendered figures often find themselves embroiled in tragicomic narratives, while her everyday objects adopt an eerie, portentous air. In both cases, she employs a keen ironic wit to evoke myriad idiosyncrasies and contradictions. Drawing on a range of historical and contemporary influences, Baby, It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over examines aspects of an American milieu and media landscape, the subjects of which are displayed with an exactitude and intensity that is at once oneiric and all-too-real.
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Η Γουεηαντ παρουσιαζει ανθρωπους σε κωμικοτραγικες καταστασεις οπου καθημερινα αντικειμενα αποκτουν ενα αερα μυστιριου και φοβου. Νεα αποφοιτος του Rhode Island School of Design, εκφραζεται με παλεττα με περιορισμενα χρωματα και εξαιρετικη τεχνικη. Μια καλλιτεχνης που αξιζει να παρακολουθουμε το εργο της.
"It must be love"
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