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                                   Archangel, 2008 Acrylic, silver enamel, marble dust, glitter, paper mache, small objects, feathers, marker, pigment, unpainted canvas, 48 x 55"

 

Laurel Sparks: Pleasure Dome
February 6 - March 10, 2009

 

For Immediate Release

 

Howard Yezerski Gallery is pleased to present “Pleasure Dome”, a new series of abstract paintings by Laurel Sparks on view from February 6 – March 10, 2009. Inspired by the color and lunacy of queer experimental film from the sixties and seventies, this series embodies and disembodies decadent glamour. Like a scene from a Kenneth Anger film, mists of toxic color and puddles of glitter evoke a Dionysian atmosphere that attracts and repels.

As in previous work, silhouettes of Venetian chandeliers are festooned with radiant white and day-glow pours. Spectral forms emerge and dissolve within vividly patterned backgrounds. Like a botched Rorschach, symmetries fragment and contours burst into smears of punky color, pigment flecks, and glitter. Surfaces are either too empty or over decorated, juxtaposing raw canvas with brush marks, crusty marble dust, and gold and fecal blobs that ooze pom-poms, plastic objects and wads of paper.

Elegant, yet irreverent these paintings dare us to embrace their uncivilized beauty.

 

For further information please contact  Howard Yezerski Gallery 617.262.0550  Tuesday - Saturday 10-5:30pm