Opening Friday, September 9th, 6-8pm; Void | Paintings by Sarah McKenzie + Sneak Peek TONIGHT!
Memorial by Sarah McKenzie
Sarah McKenzie | Void
artist bio | statement | images
Jen Bekman Gallery is pleased to present Void, the second solo exhibition of paintings by Sarah McKenzie. Join us this Friday, September 9th, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m., at an opening reception for the artist. The exhibition is on view through October 23rd.
Anonymous hotel rooms, nondescript city views and construction sites are the subjects of McKenzie’s show. Depicted in large-scale and intimately-sized works with subdued colors and minimal compositions, these spaces belie the power and intensity of McKenzie’s newest paintings. A sense of wanting in their solitary, empty atmospheres is heightened by obscured vantage points—McKenzie’s subjects are seen from above and at ground-level, through hotel windows, curtains and screens. Alternately transparent and opaque, Void gives shape and presence to absence and loss, enveloping the viewer in deafening silence. McKenzie says about the thresholds:
In addition to the windows, there are doorways, tunnels, holes. These are liminal zones, where one might pass from one space or state of being to another, but often a curtain, screen or reflective surface interferes, holding the viewer back at the point of transition. Transition is thus presented as a continuous state. We are ever in flux.
Special Sneak Peek TONIGHT, September 7th, 6-8pm. JBG will join THIRTY-SIX LES galleries either hosting their fall show opening or staying open from 6-8pm TONIGHT. It will be a great time to see not only a preview of the Void exhibition but also many great shows in the area. For more info about all of the participating galleries click here.
Jen Bekman Gallery
6 Spring Street
(between Elizabeth + Bowery)
New York, NY 10012
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