DC M OORE GALLERY 535 WEST 22ND STREET NEW YORK NEW YORK 10011 212 247.2111 DCMOOREGALLERY.COM FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE MARY FRANK: ELEMENTAL EXPRESSION DARREN WATERSTON REMOTESculpture FUTURES 1969-1985 & Recent Work OCTOBER 4 – NOVEMBER 3, 2012 November 14 – December 21, 2013 Opening Reception OPENING RECEPTION November 14, 6 – 8 pm OCTOBER 4, 6 – 8 PM AcataloguewithanessaybyJimVoorhies Clay is very spontaneous. It’s direct, like drawing…. Clay is will be available. gravity-seeking. There are moments when it seems Agony in the Garden, 2012. Oil on wood panel, 36 x 36 inches. analogous to flesh. ⎯Mary Frank, 1978 DC MOORE GALLERY is pleased to present its first exhibition Detailby Darren of Three Waterston, Dancers, 1981. Remote ceramic Futures . This recent body of work explores the allure and menace of utopian fantasy, where29 x 34 an x 25imagined, inches overall idealized paradise holds within it a disconcerting future. DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present Mary Frank: Elemental Expression: Sculpture 1969-1985 & WaterstonRecent Work, has often which engaged offers a with rare mythological, opportunity to theological, see major worksand natural in clay histories that established while proposing her reputation visual depictionsas one of ofthe the most ineffable innovative that transcendartists on the the New picture York plane. scene. In ThisRemote is the Futures first extensive, there is exhibitionevidence of humanthese evocative life in the works fragments in ofover architecture twenty years.—temples, Her recent cathedrals, paintings ziggurats, and photographs bridges bring—that the emerge exhibition from full the circle, organic highlighting detritus. the These continuity scenes of evokethe mythic, places elemental of refuge, worlds offering that shean escapehas been from creating the processes in several differentof time andmediums mortality. over Forthe courseWaterston, of more however, than utopiansix decades. potential A catalogue is untenable with asan such. essay With by Jo abstractedhn Yau will eleme accompanynts that the are show. both corporeal and celestial, Waterston’s scenes become simultaneously Edenic and dystopian. Mary has said of clay, “It is an astounding medium… so alive and dead, both…It doesn’t breathe on its own, but you Waterston’scan breathe formal into it andapproach change complements it.” Mary breathes his thematic emotion interest and insight in divergence. into all of His her painterly work, and technique the emotiona is drawnl from bothresonance the Italian of her Renaissance ceramic pieces—he layers is no different. oils and viscous Using clay glazes in unorthodox over gessoed and wood experimental panels—and ways, traditional she combined Japanese paintingmodeling, methods carving, such incising, as calligraphic and assembling brushwork. in sculpture These that moments suggests of technicalthe shifting precision, planes of however, cubist figures, are no the sooner perceivedmythology thanof Greek they godsare obscured. and goddesses, The resulting and a ethereallargely feminine visions evokesensuality both and distant corporeality pasts and that fantastical seems to futures. have morphed and merged organically into place. Darren Waterston lives and works in New York, NY. His work is featured in permanent collections including Los AngelesLinda Nochlin, County has Museum written ofthat, Art, “Frank’s CA; Seattle work Artspeaks Museum, to our WA; deepest and Museumand most of commonly Fine Arts, shared Houston, emotions, TX. Waterston’s and upcomingdoes so in projectsways that include are entirely an editioned, unconventional large-format and original, print portfolioways conceived commissioned through bya lifetime the Fine of Artsexperience Museums and of Sanknowledge, Francisco, yet topalpitating be published with the in conjunctionvitality of immediate with an exhibitiondiscovery.” in The May range 2013. of MASSdeep emotions MoCA will present also host in these a major installation by Waterston in the fall of 2013. sculptures is impressive – while one is heavy with grief, another figure, Persephone, feels delicate and hopeful. In Three Dancers, the women embody movement and dance in a trance-like state. There is a lightness in how they tilt DCand Moore sway, inGallery tune with specializes each other, in contemporarywith body and form,and twentieth-century and with their birth art. from The both gallery the earth is open and Tuesdayimagination. through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm. Press previews can be arranged prior to the exhibition. For more information, forMary photographs, Frank created or and to arrange exhibited a ceramicviewing, sculpture please contact from the Meg late 1960sBowers to atthe [email protected]. early 1990s. As she increasingly began working in two dimensions, she translated many of the symbolic elements that she had developed in clay into her explorations of new mediums. In the recent paintings and photographs that are displayed alongside her sculpture, certain natural motifs recur in different forms, and the interdisciplinary nature of Mary’s artistic practice can be seen in the shared monumentality of this broad, yet unified, exhibition. Mary Frank has had numerous solo museum and gallery exhibitions over the years, including two retrospectives at the Neuberger Museum in Purchase, NY (2000 and 1979), and the show Natural Histories, organized by the DeCordova Museum, in Lincoln, MA, (1988), which traveled to the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, and the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY. She was included in the 1973 and 1989 Whitney Biennials, and her work is in the permanent collections of many museums including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and National Museum of Art, Washington, DC Also on view in the project gallery: Charles Burchfield: American Landscapes. Upcoming exhibition: Yvonne Jacquette, January 4 - February 1, 2014. *** DC MOORE GALLERY specializes in contemporary and twentieth-century art. The gallery is open Tuesday through Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm. For more information, for photographs, or to arrange a viewing, please contact Lily Zhou at [email protected]. .