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March 11- 14,
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 Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to announce its participation in
the upcoming Scope New York Art Fair March 11- 14, 2005 at the
Flatotel 135 West 52nd Street, Suite 1015.
The exhibition will feature 29 year old self-taught artist Vahakn
Arslanian.
Arslanian has been exhibiting his art since the age of 13. Deaf
since birth and having no formal art training Arslanian would seem
to fit the bill as a classic Outsider artist. Yet he grew up in a
prominent art collecting family and has been around the artworld
his entire life. He was even the subject of a documentary film
Portrait of an Artist narrated by Julian Schnabel in 1991.
Arslanian's imagery is diverse - from airplanes to still-life
objects:
a pair of binoculars, a candle, a lightbulb or soda can. By placing
his figures inside various types of unusual window frames he
bestows upon them an elevated , iconic status. More recently
Arslanian has been drawing countless images of birds,
sometimes transforming their beaks into subway cars or plane
fuselages.
In addition to Edlin Gallery shows over the past year Arslanian's
work has been included in exhibitions at the American Visionary
Art Museum in Baltimore, the Scope Miami Art Fair, and Lombard-
Freid Fine Arts in New York.
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February
24 - April 2, 2005 |
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 Andrew Edlin Gallery is pleased to announce Art Brut Drawings from
Europe, a group exhibition featuring Marc Lamy, Carl Binder and
Herman Bossert, running February 24 - April 2, 2005.
This marks the gallery's second formal presentation for Marc Lamy.
Born in Lyon in 1939, Lamy began to draw in 1988 after struggling
with insomnia and auditory hallucinations. A solo exhibition was
held at the Collection de L'Art Brut in Lausanne in 1994 (where his
work is in the permanent collection), and his drawings were featured
in Treasures of the Soul at the American Visionary Art Museum in
2001.
Carl Binder (1906 - 1985) began drawing in 1960 after retiring from
a life as a farmhand in Baldingen, Switzerland. His scenes of cows,
horses and pastoral landscapes received little notice during his
lifetime. The gallery presented a solo exhibit of his work in 2004.
We are pleased to introduce the work of Herman Bossert. Born in
Amsterdam in 1940, Bossert taught school in small towns eventually
becoming a French instructor at secondary schools. After taking
early retirement in 1990 he devoted himself entirely to drawing,
employing a spontaneous technique using ink and watercolor. His
compositions feature fantastical architectural constructions
shrouded in mysterious, otherworldly atmospheres. |
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