New Discretions
New York
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Some say that abstraction is a safe place to hide. It's true. It is hard to find fault in the curve, to take offense at a splash of crimson. Yet not all abstractions are safe. Some conceal impish play; some contain incendiary plots; some approach the sublime. Here we present four artists and a collaboration whose removal of form plays with the erotic—with these ridiculously clumsy and delicious bodies in which we live—but just barely. Shapes and colors and textures gently nudge the viewer to a place of visual bliss, but with compositions unsullied with anything that could be construed as coarse.
BREYER P-ORRIDGE, who have used their bodies as canvases for decades, collaborates with Eric Heist to pay homage to Warhol, continuing their Candy Factory series. Michael Bilsborough’s Xspx Drawings are optical experiences drawn from abstract models of space and form. In colored pencil, ink and more, this drawing series explores abstraction, structure, and speculative fields. Each drawing is centered on a point, perhaps a rooted place for the traveler’s return. Kathryn Garcia employs an erogenous ombre filled with mountains and suns. Dutch master Kinke Kooi’s gentle works on paper swallow all things representative and birth weird tender shapes that confuse and delight. Gabriela Vainsencher has ceramics which twist into three dimensions, forcing them to rear up, or at least sit up. They are mash-ups of female body parts—breasts, muscles, hips, labia, and arms—with those of ancient Greek vessels: the necks, bottoms, and handles of amphorae and rhytons.
New Discretions is a curatorial project by Benjamin Tischer of INVISIBLE-EXPORTS. Operating as a community rather than a traditional gallery, New Discretions works with directly artists, existing brick-and-mortar spaces, and less traditional outlets. New Discretions is about collaboration and unexplored possibilities.
New Discretions also offers art advisory services, with over 15 years of experience with clients, artists and galleries.