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Nature’s Thought Palaces: Daniella Dooling and Mike Glier

May 13, 2023 in , /by

Opening Sunday May 21, 2023 3-6PM Nature’s Thought Palaces Daniella Dooling – Sculpture Mike Glier – Painting and Drawing Human sensory perceptions – like all living entities are limited. Our particular sense organs receive only the information that has provided advantages for our species over evolutionary timescales. Given how little of other species umwelts we can comprehend, if we are curious about other realities we can try to expand our experience by watching behaviors, reading science texts and attempting to fill in the blanks intellectually. If we are lucky to live with animals we can let them set our agendas and see what attracts them to linger. But even as we try to compensate by reading and studying, pretending actual comprehension remains at best an enjoyable folly, our desires and the way we fill in the blanks revealing much about our sense organs and thoughts, desires and imaginations as humans, building marvelous thought palaces around our limitations. Daniella Dooling in her sculptures and Mike Glier in his paintings and drawings regard nature at one level – birds, bears and bobcats fill the gallery space. Yet on another profound level they are considering the timeless human desire to get beyond our […]

The Queen of Spades…and other stories

January 9, 2022 in , /by

Bienvenu Steinberg & Partner THE QUEEN OF SPADES… AND OTHER STORIES January 13 – February 26, 2022 The Queen of Spades First published in 1833, Alexander Pushkin’s enigmatic The Queen of Spades is one of the major classics of Russian literature. It has been the inspiration of operas, films and exhaustive critical study. Less known, and sometimes intentionally obscured, is the history of Pushkin’s African ancestry. Abram Petrovich Gannibal, Pushkin’s maternal great grandfather, rose out of slavery to become a general in Tsar Peter the Great’s armies. Commissioned by Eminence Grise Editions, three outstanding artists, Derrick Adams, Outtara Watts and Fred Wilson have entered personal responses into the dialogue generated by their fascination with Pushkin and the story. Derrick Adams’ works pay tribute to the two female characters, Countess N and her lady in waiting. In Fred Wilson’s suite of three images the black spade emerges to overwhelm and obscure depictions of a courtly lady and gentleman. Echoing Fyodor Dostoevsky’s statement that Pushkin’s tale represents “the pinnacle of the art of the fantastic,” Ouattara Watts has created two hallucinatory visions. And other stories Also included in the exhibition are recent Eminence Grise editions that hint at narratives that are never […]