Tim Davis
Daedalus and Icarus (Permanent Collection), 2003
C-print
60 1/4 x 44 inches
Saint Clair Cemin
One Century Smites Another, 1999
bronze with marble base
34 x 16 x 9 1/4 inches
Ridley Howard
A Fresh Betrayal, 2005
oil on linen
24 x 36 inches
Paul Hodgson
Double Portrait, 2002
iris print on paper
26 3/4 x 27 3/4 inches
Nicky Hoberman
Untitled (Chair & owls), 2003
pastel on tracing paper
60 x 43 inches
Lars Arrhenius
Zoo, 2005
laminated c-print on aluminum
48 x 65 inches
Karen Yasinsky
Boys, 2002
still from DVD, stop motion animation
approx. 2 minutes looped
vocals by Miranda July
sound and music by Tim Renner and Zac Love
edition of 3
Judith Linhares
Cook, 2003
oil on linen
57 x 78 inches
Sarah Peters
Beast, 2005
ink and pencil on paper
17 1/2 x 20 inches
Sarah Peters
Garden of Earthly Delights, 2005
ink and pencil on paper
27 1/2 x 20 inches
Sarah Peters
Still Life with Battle, 2005
ink and pencil on paper
21 1/2 x 27 inches
Sarah Peters
Spectacle, 2005
ink and pencil on paper
17 1/2 x 20 inche
Max Beckmann
Adam and Eve, 1917
drypoint
17 3/8 x 13 5/8 inches
Max Beckmann
Romance, 1948
pen and ink over pencil on laid paper
14 5/8 x 12 3/4 inches
John Block
Boxer, 2002
still from DVD
2 1/2 minutes
John Block
Boxer, 2002
still from DVD
2 1/2 minutes
John Block
Boxer, 2002
still from DVD
2 1/2 minutes
John Block
Boxer, 2002
still from DVD
2 1/2 minutes
John Block
Boxer, 2002
still from DVD
2 1/2 minutes
Iven Witenstein
Me and My Friends We Go a Mighty Long Way, 2003
epoxy resin, fiberglass
60 x 30 x 108 inches
Joe Andoe
Untitled, 2005
oil on linen
30 x 40 inches (each panel)
Jim Nutt
Wishful Thinking, 1978
graphite and colored pencil on kraft paper
4 3/8 x 4 3/4 inches
James Ensor
Anger, 1904
etching and drypoint
8 x 11 1/2 inches
James Ensor
Devils Thrashing Angels and Archangels, 1888
etching
14 1/8 x 18 7/8 inches
Inka Essenhigh
Show Girls, 2000
color silkscreen
35 x 31 inches
edition of 40
Inka Essenhigh
Daedalus and Icarus, 2000
color silkscreen
35 x 31 inches
edition of 40
Henry Darger
Untitled (side a)
watercolor, carbon transfer constructions on paper
paper size: 19 x 47 inches (double-sided
Henry Darger
Untitled (side b)
watercolor, carbon transfer constructions on paper
paper size: 19 x 47 inches (double-sided)
George Grosz
Traum Fantasia, c. 1916
ink and crayon on paper
9 x 11 1/2 inches
George Grosz
Der Liebesturm (Tower of Love), c. 1915
colored crayon and ink on paper
19 1/2 x 17 inches
Elizabeth Huey
Triumph, 2005
acrylic and oil with pencil on wood panel
48 x 72 inches
Drew Beattie
Friendly Monster, 2004
oil on canvas
96 x 76 inches
Dennis Kardon
Illusions of Security, 2005
oil on linen
24 x 36 inches
David Humphrey
Dog Lover, 1997-2005
painted hydrostone
27 x 57 x 12 inches
Craig Love
#36 from "Along the Red Carpet", 2004
ink and watercolor on paper
11 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Craig Love
#39 from "Along the Red Carpet", 2004
ink and watercolor on paper
11 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Craig Love
#48 from "Along the Red Carpet", 2004
ink and watercolor on paper
11 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Craig Love
#68 from "Along the Red Carpet", 2004
ink and watercolor on paper
11 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Craig Love
#39 from "Along the Red Carpet", 2004
ink and watercolor on paper
11 1/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Amanda Lechner
Sides, 2005
graphite, ink on paper
22 x 30 inches
Amanda Lechner
A Disagreement, 2005
graphite on paper
15 x 22 inches
Amanda Lechner
Bearing a Giant, 2005
graphite on paper
22 x 30 inches
Amanda Lechner
Made Off, 2005
graphite on paper
15 x 17 inches
Clare Rojas
Cherry Picker, 2003
gouache and latex on panel
8 x 8 inches
Clare Rojas
Untitled (Blue Mountain Pink Tulip), 2004
gouache and latex on paper
4 3/4 x 8 1/2 inches
Clare Rojas
Untitled (Child play with bear), 2004
gouache and latex on paper
10 3/4 x 8 3/4 inche
Clare Rojas
Diamond House with Twins, 2004
gouache and latex on panel
10 x 6 inches
Clare Rojas
Untitled (Sad girl on blocks), 2004
gouache and latex on paper
9 3/4 x 9 3/4 inches
Clare Rojas
Untitled (Woman in Scarf), 2003
gouache and latex on wood
10 x 7 inches
LIFE AND LIMB
Curated by David Humphrey
June 3 – July 30, 2005
The world is lousy with threats and dangers! It's amazing that we aren't paralyzed with dread. We're good, though, at telling stories that both assuage and kindle our fears. Life and Limb is a story about those stories. Narrative figurative art has flourished throughout history, from prehistoric cave paintings to digital images beamed into space. This exhibition will trace an eccentric itinerary through various regions of modern and contemporary art. Prints, drawings, paintings, photographs, sculptures and videos will survey various matters of psychological urgency through depictions of figures doing things with and to each other.
Narrative can be purveyed by any media in an astonishing variety of genre. Like brain function, narrative is deep. We don't understand anything without connecting cause to effect, past to present and future. A story uses memory and imagination to organize sense data into something coherent. Because narrative artworks can only represent a fragment, or part of a continuum, the viewer must imagine the before and after based on what's presented.
Life and Limb focuses on intersubjectivity, on what people do and feel between each other. Acts of resistance, surrender, conflict, love, sex, longing and phobia drive narrative operations in general as well as the works in this show. Some artists picture a sanctuary from these conditions while others drive straight into the darkness; some adopt a comic stance while others get serious.
Do we choose to believe the words of the off-frame speaker in Kerry James Marshall's print who asserts, "Everything will be alright. I just know it will"?
-David Humphrey
David Humphrey is an artist and critic living and working in New York. He has curated several exhibitions, including the most recent "When I Think About You I Touch Myself", New York Academy of Art, 2004.
