Laura Joy Lustig
Wash. Rinse. Repeat.
December 14, 2006 through January 23, 2007
LAURA JOY LUSTIG
"WASH. RINSE. REPEAT."
December 14, 2006 through January 23, 2007
MERGE GALLERY is pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition of new works by New York painter Laura Joy Lustig. The exhibition, titled "WASH. RINSE. REPEAT." consists of new works of mixed media paintings on canvas.
A few words from the artist, "always the need to work. hands make head happy. creating art is translating subjective unconscious onto physical planes."
Laura started off in the arts as a poet "... the greatness in poetry is being able to say the most in the least possible space. The precision is pure and the abstraction, limitless".
She then stumbled upon photography: "My paintings and photographs are similar in theory but exact opposite in the way they physically express themselves". Said Lustig when asked on her vocabulary in the arts.
Upon viewing Lustig's works, one would perhaps immediately presume chaos and muddling, but on the contrary, the artists lines, colors, forms and various medium interact among themselves just as in the literal way of life-- with a constant non-linear pattern, evoking oneness through a series of passing, skipping, evolving forms that together, make up an integration, layers of experience and time that we see formed solid in a photograph.
"It is the observed time-process of painting that I love. There's a Dadaist introduction with little else beside the paint itself determining authenticity, it allows itself to become itself without me interrupting with 'thought' that has came from elsewhere, hence, has been done before!"
More often than not, Lustig allows the ego to step inside and satisfy conscious demands driven by obsessive preconceived beliefs of form, color and texture. The actual editing process from here is a physical process that can be one mark or an entire surface wash, rinse and often repeated, but, in the end, what really matters is that there are no recognizable ends. "The essence ought be in the work and the re-work. Watching changes as they occur with strokes taken back or movement forced over. Neighboring marks integrate and fizz within a whole."
Lustig adds, "and just like these paintings, whether chaotic or calm, life too, is justly exemplified in uncertainty and inevitable change."
Gallery hours are from 11am to 6pm Tuesday through Saturday. For more information, please contact Cass Zielinkski at Merge Gallery at info@mergegallery.com or telephone 212-929-7505.
Merge Gallery 205 West 20th Street
New York, NY 10011
Tel 212 929 7505
www.mergegallery.com
