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February Issue 2006
Joie Lassiter Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Robert Lazzarini and Elizabeth Turk
Joie Lassiter Gallery in Charlotte, NC, presents New Works, featuring original drawings and prints by Robert Lazzarini, on view from Feb. 3 through Mar. 31, 2006, and Poppyfields, featuring bronze sculpture and large drawings by Elizabeth Turk, on view from Feb. 3 through Mar. 15, 2006.
Robert Lazzarini
Lazzarini was the 'star' of the 2002 Whitney Biennial and since then has become one of the most important artists of his generation. Lazzarini is one of the most important American sculptors working today. He uses advanced digital technology to create distorted versions of familiar objects. His beautiful yet unsettling works address the physical, psychological and emotional implications of this distortion. As distorted versions of familiar objects, they appear in the process of slipping between two and three dimensions, from realism to abstraction, from this world to the next. Appearing to expand and contract as the viewer shifts vantage points, the works seem to collapse upon themselves or, in the artist's words, "slip toward their own demise."
Exhibited internationally, Lazzarini's sculpture and works on paper have been seen in London, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Seoul and cities throughout the United States. In addition to his inclusion in the 2002 Whitney Biennial, Lazzarini's work has since been in numerous museum shows including a solo exhibition at the Virginia Museum of Fine Art in 2003. His work can also be found in a number of permanent collections including The Whitney, The Walker Art Center, The Newark Museum and the Midwest Museum of American Art.
Synonymous with an agenda of the gallery to bring the best of New York artists to North Carolina, two of Lazzarini's sculptures were placed by the gallery in important Charlotte collections prior to the 2002 Whitney Biennial. These works were subsequently included in the remarkable exhibition, Revelation, at the Mint Museum of Art curated by Carla Hanzal. They now appear again in Lazzarini's one man show at the museum, VantagePoint V: Robert Lazzarini, on view from Feb. 25 through July 16, 2006.
Elizabeth Turk
The bronze sculptures in Poppyfields represent a departure from Elizabeth Turk's highly refined works in marble. While parts of the figures appear realistic, other areas deconstruct and meld together. The quality of the wax model is not lost during the casting process. Drips and dents become part of the finished work. Soft pools of wax are cast and in some cases form the base of the sculpture.
The sculptures in the series were inspired by the poem In Flander's Fields by John McCrae. Each figure is displayed in a different state of refinement atop a long pole. Some figures are fully formed while others are more enigmatic. Also on view will be exquisitely executed large-scale drawings by the artist.
Turk received her MFA in Sculpture from the Rinehart School at the Maryland Institute, and had completed several prestigious residencies - including the Kyojima Artist in Residence Program, Tokyo, Japan and the McColl Center for Visual Art in Charlotte. Recently, Turk had a one-woman show at the Mint Museum of Art, where several of the pieces remain on view. Turk has shown internationally and her work is in the collections of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, Weatherspoon Art Museum, NC, and Corcoran Gallery of Art Washington DC.
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