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HEMPSTEAD Hofstra University Museum Body Mappingg," exhibition featuring works by four contemporary artists whose imagery deals with marking the human body.
The work of 14 artists whose imagery flirts with narrative in one way or another fills this wide-ranging show, which exposes some intriguing talents.
Writing in the catalog for "Photographing Suburbia," the exhibition curator, Daniel R. Rubey, outlines the thinking behind his selection of the artists and imagery.
Among the first shows will be "Pre-Columbian Remix," which considers how contemporary Latin American artists appropriate imagery from ancient American cultures, and "Coney: Night Maze," an installation by Donna Dennis inspired by the Cyclone roller coaster in Coney Island.
In buncheong's later stages some artists eliminated imagery by dipping pieces into the slip to create uniform surfaces resembling porcelain or by using wide brushes to produce wavy, striated patterns.
None of the artists offer imagery as inventively fantastic as his, but his influence is evident in Matthias Weischer's large, thickly squeegeed, drably colored paintings of retro-modern rooms; David Schnell's vertiginous, strangely artificial landscapes; and Martin Kobe's glowing, futuristic, semi-abstract architectural visions.
"It's sort of ironic that there was a reliance by these artists on imagery from the American heartland," Thompson told me.
Designer's reference points included the stark chiaroscuro of 1920s and '30s cinema, a style resurrected late last year in "The Artist," whose imagery continues to exert an impact.
Harrison's research has led him to the "unfashionable" conclusion that there are psychological motivations for a lot of the artist's imagery.
