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Gary
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Jennifer and Filippo Fossati are pleased to announce the Esso Gallery opening of the exhibition of new works by American artist Gary Kuehn. Gary Kuehn has been making art for more than forty years. His work has always proceeded in subtly subversive opposition to most art of his generation. Evoking a sense of trapped sensuality, his work suggests sound, the echo's return and the consequent emotiveness. His new works at Esso Gallery are in that tradition. These new works create a series
of unique images. In some an ideal order appears charged with
tension. Others arise from serendipitous events, intense and
meaningful, in which are revealed the artist's passions for geometry
and literature. This imagery represents discovery in the moment
as well as the temporal suggestion in the rapidity of the moment,
of time as relative. This in turn opens a peculiar laceration
in the ordinary apprehension of time and further suggests the
sense of going further, above the known threshold, into another
dimension. Kuehn refers to himself before other things, redrawing
the outline of who is at the center of experience, as displacement
and dynamism of his quest. Gary Kuehn succeeds in leaving us with the unsettled feeling that what he creates are symbols, and that we need to learn to oscillate between myth and a simple assertion. - Barry Flip Gary Kuehn was born in Plainfield, New Jersey in 1939. He received a B.A. in Art History from Drew University and an M.F.A from Rutgers University. His works have been shown in several exhibitions since the sixties. Early on his work was included in the groundbreaking exhibit When Attitudes Become Form curated by Harald Szeeman in Bern, Switzerland. His art is represented in major museum and private collections in United States and in Europe, and has been the subject of numerous one-person exhibitions around the world. Kuehn lives and works in New York. |
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