Curator Leslie Wayne chatting in front of Lydia Dona’s Portraits & Speed…
We recently received installation images from the exhibition Revision, Reiteration, Recombination: Process and the Contemporary Print curated by Leslie Wayne. The show featured Durham Press prints by Polly Apfelbaum, Lydia Dona and Leslie Wayne among others and traveled to two separate venues. The included images were taken from the installation at the College of Visual Arts in Minneapolis where JP joined Leslie and another invited guest in a roundtable discussion. By all accounts, the exhibition was a success and may travel to other venues later next year.
Polly Apfelbaum’s Baby Love 84 (left) among other works in the exhibition
Image of the installation including works by Leslie Wayne (center right) and Lydia Dona (right)
Lydia Dona @ Michael Steinberg Fine Art
March 29, 2008
Fuel Injection by Lydia Dona
Lydia Dona’s exhibition, From Heat to Sub-Zero, is now on display at Michael Steinberg Fine Art in New York City. The show features a combination of Lydia’s paintings and prints, including Fuel Injection made in collaboration with Durham Press. The show runs from March 21st through April 26th, 2008. For more information, please visit www.michaelsteinbergfineart.com.
From the Michael Steinberg Fine Art website:
Michael Steinberg Fine Art is pleased to present “From Heat To Sub-Zero”, an exhibition of new works by Lydia Dona. Featured in the exhibition is the monumental triptych from which the show derives its name. Completed in 2008, this painting offers an opportunity to understand the interplay between the artist’s recent paintings and her graphic work. Accompanying the painting are three large format etchings published by Poligrafa of Barcelona, Spain, as well as a silkscreen print issued by Durham Press of Durham, Pennsylvania. Seen in combination, the influence of the graphics on Dona’s painting becomes apparent.
The exploration of urban environment, the encroachment of technology on the human body and the organic enmeshments with the chemical changes surrounding them has been a repetitive development and preoccupation in Dona’s approach to abstraction.
The cinematic devices of sequence, framing, cutting and variety of lightings, have infiltrated their way into the monumentality so this triptych is constructed between breaks, meeting points, and the complexity of transformation.
The introduction of silver metallic paint, copper and oxide copper play a new role in the idea of chemical change as well as a sculptural and photographic impact into the canvas. The utilization of auto car repairs, tubes, and diagrams is constructing and evolving into lines that created a new relationship and a challenging despair between environments sunk into mass.
The linear elements move and entangle themselves creating a new context with the line, marks, borders, and cityscapes. The super charged content and motion, the visual charge of heavy metal and light metal decreases in temperatures to the edge of the self-elimination and the potent frames of experimentation.
Lydia Dona lives and works in New York City. Well known both nationally and internationally, Dona’s work has been featured in important museum exhibitions such as the 1991 Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C., and From Albers to Paik, Works from the Daimler Chrysler Collection, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, in 1999. Recent group shows include Officina America at the galleria D’arte Moderna Bologna, Italy, in 2002, and About Painting at the Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York, in 2004. Between 1995 and 1997, a survey show of her work from 1989 – 1995 traveled in the United States and Canada. Lydia Dona’s work is included in numerous significant collections, both public and private.
Leslie Wayne exhibitions in Georgia, Florida and Minnesota
January 9, 2008
We just received an announcement that Leslie Wayne is having a show at Solomon Projects in Atlanta, Georgia. The show, titled No Going Back, will be up from January 25 – February 29, 2008, with an opening reception on January 25 from 6-8 pm. Leslie will also be giving a talk on Saturday, January 26 at 11 am. For more information on the show, visit www.solomonprojects.com.
Leslie also curated a show of prints that will be exhibited at the University of Central Florida and the College of Visual Arts in St. Paul, Minnesota. The show, titled Revision, Reiteration, Recombination: Process and the Contemporary Print, features work made in collaboration with Durham Press by Lydia Dona, Polly Apfelbaum and Leslie herself, among others. The show will be up at UCF from January 17 – February 21, 2008 and then will travel to the College of Visual Arts, where it will be up from March 6 – April 5, 2008.
Portraits & Speed in the Architecture of Desire #2 by Lydia Dona
Portraits & Speed in the Architecture of Desire #3 by Lydia Dona
Design for Life and Dislocation by Leslie Wayne
