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KIMBERLY VENARDOS & COMPANY is
pleased to announce the opening of an exhibition featuring new work by
artists MAGGIE MICHAEL and DAN STEINHILBER. Please join us at a
reception Friday September 12, 2003 from 6pm to 8pm. The exhibition will
remain on view through October 11, 2003. KIMBERLY VENARDOS & COMPANY is
located at 1014 Madison Avenue, between 78th and 79th Streets.
MAGGIE MICHAEL’s work has been described as sculptural painting. DAN
STEINHILBER’s work has been described as painterly sculpture. This
exhibition, the first in New York to survey the work of these two
Washington, D.C. based artists, features new paintings, drawings and
sculpture.
Reconfiguring ordinary household objects such as plastic spoons and
paper cups, DAN STEINHILBER creates mixed media works that stir the
imagination and reveal the hidden splendor in the commonplace. A box of
household trash bags filled with air is transformed into a giant
geodesic blossom. Dozens of hangers, each with its crisp paper sleeve,
are dramatically suspended, one on another, from floor to ceiling.
Aggregately this elaborate maze of shifting angles and rounded edges is
suggestive of a flock of birds or a school of fish; alternatively it is
a diagram for a complex genetic code. Interpretation is open in
STEINHILBER’s work and all of his pieces are untitled. One is compelled
as much by the sculptural energy of his creations as by their conceptual
underpinnings.
Directions - DAN STEINHILBER, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition
will open at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in September 2003.
Currently STEINHILBER’s work is featured in the exhibition Census at the
Corcoran Gallery of Art. His work was also included in Art Point, during
Art Basel Miami Beach, 2002. Recent grants include a Young Artists Grant
(2003) and a Small Projects Program Grant (2002) both from the D.C.
Commission on the Arts and Humanities. STEINHILBER holds a BFA from the
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and an MFA from American
University.
MAGGIE MICHAEL’s abstract paintings are vibrant adventures in action and
response. Orchestrating her compositions through a series of spills,
lifts and tilts, MICHAEL pours latex paint onto acrylic panels or
canvas, building lush seductive surfaces. In her performative approach
to painting MICHAEL takes her cues from the materiality and opacity of
the paint, letting it sag and nestle into relationships of form and
color. Properties inherent to this medium – puckering, bubbling and
cracking – reveal themselves while drying and are an integral part of
her process. MICHAEL’s paintings have a sculptural quality that often
borders on figuration. Bulbous folds and blemishes imitate the nuances
of skin. Sumptuous and sexy, MICHAEL’s paintings are rich painterly
feasts. Extending on this idea are MICHAEL’s more visually narrative
drawings, which reference animation and illustration with their punchy,
quirky wit.
MAGGIE MICHAEL’s work will be featured in the exhibition PAINTING! at
University Art Gallery, Central Michigan University in October 2003.
Currently her work is on exhibition in Census at the Corcoran Gallery of
Art. She is the recipient of a Small Projects Program Grant from the
D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities, Washington. MICHAEL holds a
BFA from the University of Wisconsin, an MA from San Francisco State
University and an MFA from American University.
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday,
10am - 6pm.
For images and additional information please contact the
gallery or visit our website
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