Amanda
Besl
 Amanda
Besl’s most recent body
of
work entitled “Riding Lessons” straddles the strong
bond
between adolescent girls and their equine obsessions. Her subjects are
at
the cusp
of
adulthood and precariously place themselves between adolescence
and
burgeoning self-awareness. Besl’s work examines these
seemingly
simple narratives with playful yet
menacing
undertones.
The ability to control
an
animal ten times her size using only her legs, weight, hands, and voice
is
a powerful bonding experience for a teenager, whose physicality is
shifting
and morphing beyond her control.
Besl’s paintings
are
small in size in order to allow a more intimate viewing
experience,
recalling their history as photographic images. The paintings emerge
from
the wall as frozen suggestive moments. The artist is interested in
the
perception of what is ordinary to a horse-obsessed suburban teenager
amidst
the languid beauty of endless adolescent summer days. In fact, to
view
these paintings is to partake in a visual eavesdropping on the
secretive
world that engulfs today’s young
girl.
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 Jazz-minh
Moore
Jazz-minh
Moore’s figurative
work
attempts to capture the emotional spirit of her sitters. Her
subjects
are often friends and acquaintances, mostly artists and writers, who have
a
ferocity that they must express. Seizing a particular gesture in
these
‘expressions’ is Moore’s way of revealing a wealth
of
emotions and applauding an array of authentic, uninhibited moments.
Ms. Moore’s deftness of hand lends itself seamlessly to
her
methodology. Utilizing the wood grain as a landscape to influence
her
compositions, some sections are left unfinished and others are
highly
rendered.
The level of completion is
an
evolving collaboration between the organic drawing
‘style’
present and the wood panel itself. Once the compositions
are
complete, the artist then pours several layers of poured resin over
the
surface, forever capturing the content of her subjects like a moment
in
time captured in amber.
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Lyons Wier Gallery, 175 Seventh Ave. NYC
10011
(212)242-6220
www.lyonswiergallery.com
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