Marcy Rosenblat @ Jason McCoy Gallery, NYC - Online - Shadow Liners

Marcy Rosenblat: Shadow Liners

Jason McCoy Gallery, New York - Online

September 18 – October 30, 2020

MARCY ROSENBLAT

Three Scutes, One Bangle, 2020

Pigment and silica medium on canvas, 48 x 52 inches

© Marcy Rosenblat, Courtesy of Jason McCoy Gallery, New York

Jason McCoy Gallery presents SHADOW LINERS, an exclusive online exhibition of recent paintings and works on paper by MARCY ROSENBLAT.

While Marcy Rosenblat has worked with figurative narratives in the past, her relationship with abstraction has spanned over 25 years. Even so, her new body of work has employed something quite different. Onto compositions of luminous abstract shapes, she sprays paint through pieces of lace. This creates the illusion of a mysterious fabric veiling parts of the canvas, generating a vivid interplay between background and surface pattern.

Marcy Rosenblat notes: "Focusing on something behind a drape engages a specific thought process. The act of bringing something into view agitates the mind as it tries to grasp the content of what is being revealed. I'm interested in making paintings that agitate the viewing mind in the same way, where in addition to being looked at the paint becomes something the viewer tries to look through."

Despite Marcy Rosenblat’s formal concerns, the patterns she introduces bring about an array of allusions, ranging from curtains, pixels, and tattoos. This provides her work with a perhaps originally unintentional but welcomed subtext. Although historically, the making of lace (unlike embroidery for example) was not considered a gender specific practice, the association of the material with homemaking or with the adornment of fanciful female gowns, certainly was. By liberating lace from any traditional and cultural context and only using small sections of larger fabrics, Marcy Rosenblat guides our focus straight to its intricate, web-like details.

Born in 1952 in Chicago, MARCY ROSENBLAT currently lives and works in Brooklyn. She received her B.F.A. from Kansas City Art Institute and her M.F.A. from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Rawls Museum Arts, Virginia; Fordham University, New York; Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts; The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City; and Salisbury University, Maryland. Marcy Rosenblat received an artist’s grant from the Women’s Art Development Committee in 1998. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at The Fashion Institute of Technology.

JASON MCCOY GALLERY

41 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022

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Kenneth Blom @ Jason McCoy Gallery, New York - Intruder

Kenneth Blom: INTRUDER
Jason McCoy Gallery, New York
Through July 12, 2019

KENNETH BLOM

Tiger, 2019

Oil on canvas, 55 x 63 inches, 140 x 160 cm

Image courtesy of the artist and Jason McCoy Gallery, New York

Jason McCoy Gallery presents INTRUDER, an installation of new paintings by Norwegian painter KENNETH BLOM.

Vast landscapes, architectural framework, and human isolation loom large in Kenneth Blom’s oeuvre. Shuffling these ingredients masterfully, he establishes an atmosphere that captures a key aspect of contemporary life: a sense of forlornness as humanity continues to stray away from nature. In contrast to the ideal put forth by the 19th Century Romantic movement, namely the immersion of the figure in a glorious natural environment, Kenneth Blom focuses on the opposite. Frequently encapsulated and therefore defined by manmade structures, his figures manifest as intruders.

With Kenneth Blom, the uncertainty between modern man’s relationship to nature also extends towards inter-human relationships. The figures seen here seem to blend into their surroundings, dissolving into thin air as the complexity of their constellations increases. Having drawn inspiration from the modern Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, for example, Kenneth Blom remains interested in the human psyche, especially as it can be conveyed by human relationships. As Kenneth Blom states: “It is the experience of being disconnected from each other but also from oneself that is the essence of these paintings.”

KENNETH BLOM

Born in 1967 in Roskilde, Denmark, Kenneth Blom moved to Norway as a child. He studied at the Statens Kunstakademi in Oslo (1990-1994), as well as at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts (1994-1995). He has shown extensively in Europe, including as a featured artist at Sotheby’s New Bond Street in London, at the Henie Onstad Kunstsenter in Norway, and regularly at Galeri Haaken in Oslo. He is the subject of the forthcoming documentary Forventninger/Anticipation by filmmaker Tommy Normann. Kenneth Blom lives and works in Oslo.

The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with an essay by Stephanie Buhmann. 

JASON MCCOY GALLERY
41 East 57th Street, New York, NY 10022, 11th floor
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