Twenty by Sixteen: Group exhibition | Curated by Geoffrey Young
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Amy Lincoln, Wetlands, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Andrew Small, Sanctum, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Barbara Takenaga, Untitled (Green Windy), 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Barbara Takenaga, Untitled (Wild Thing), 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Carl Baratta, Cast A Cold Eye 2, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Cary Smith, Ovals #19 (With 7 Colors), 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Cary Smith, Straight Lines #7 (Bright Green-Blue), 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Claire Jervert, Island #2L, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Daniel Heidkamp, The View From Erika's Office in Midtown, 2013
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Derek Beaulieu, Untitled #2, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Duncan Hannah, 18 Star, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Erin O'Keefe, The Flatness #12, 2013
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Eve Aschheim 20 x 16 #2, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Farrah Karapetian, Cymbalscape V, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Farrah Karapetian, Cymbalscape VI, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Fred Cooper, Sod Sculpture, 2014
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Gary Petersen, Entry, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, JJ Miyaoka-Pakola, What, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Jon Berzinski, Small Red Niche, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Katherine Bradford, Solo Flight, Aquamarine, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Lisa Sylvester, The Same Happiness, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Lucy Mink, Turn Is It Next Week, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Mark Olshansky, The Mendacious Court Account of Henry the 8th, 2014
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Meg Atkinson, Lucky Break, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Mel Bochner, 16", 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Mel Bochner, 20", 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Morgan Bulkeley, Art Gone Awry, 2014
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Myles Bennet, A Comment in the Margins: Untitled (Back and Forth), 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Nate Ethier, Smackers, 2014
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Nichole Van Beek, Nude Dune, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Peggy Reeves, Samhain, 2013
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Philip Knoll, Legends of the Art World Vol. 1, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Robert Otto Epstein, 8 Bitterized (26), 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Rose Tannenbaum, The Wild Out There, 2014
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Steve DiBenedetto, Open Container, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Valaire Van Slyck, Ahhhhhhhhh........fuck it, #2, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Vince Contarino, Main Squeeze, 2014
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Walter Robinson, Amazon Cheeseburger, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Warren Isensee, Little Star, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Warren Isensee, Ripple Effect, 2015
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Twenty by Sixteen 2015, Zohar Lazar, Untitled #1, 2015
Morgan Lehman Gallery is proud to present “Twenty by Sixteen New York,” a group show featuring the work of 40 artists, each of whom honors the single formal constraint that all work in the show be of the dimensions twenty inches tall by sixteen inches wide. Beyond that, the sky, the sea, the land and the imagination are the limit. Medium, surface, image, story, geometry, vision, abstraction, architecture, wit, nature, and the unnatural are all up for grabs in what should prove to be a revelation.
Size is relative. For some, 20 x 16” is tiny; for others it is heroic. For bibliophiles, it resembles a large page. The viewer will find in this exhibition an inquisitive range of notions (observations, traditions, adventures) as to what painting and photography are about, with no two artists looking anything like each other. The hanging of the show is rigorous--evenly spaced and egalitarian in spirit—which allows each artist’s work to promulgate its own essential style, pitched in the timelessness of aesthetic inquiry. Since each artist is represented by two works, the viewer is treated as well to variations within each signature look.
There are acres of stylistic distance, for example, between the hothouse growth in Amy Lincoln and the nailed down “pattern” in Nate Ethier, just as there are different historically specific antecedents to the alchemical transformations in Steve DiBenedetto and Rubens Ghenov, to name but four artists in the show. Mel Bochner, as efficiently as a wunderkind, combines image and conceptual specificity with a devilish wit. And if Fred Cooper’s artistically laden interiors owe nothing whatsoever to Barbara Takenaga’s cosmic debris or Mark Olshansky’s musically inspired needlepoint? All the better for art, beauty, and exploration.
Which brings me to the pâté of this fête champêtre: everyone is invited to sample the pleasures and insights that this show presents, because there just might be a taste for everyone.
Featuring work by: Eve Aschheim, Meg Atkinson, Carl Baratta, Derek Beaulieu, Myles Bennett, Jon Berzinski, Mel Bochner, Katherine Bradford, Morgan Bulkeley, Vince Contarino, Fred Cooper, Steve DiBenedetto, Robert Otto Epstein, Nate Ethier, Rubens Ghenov, Duncan Hannah, Daniel Heidkamp, Warren Isensee, Claire Jervert, Farrah Karapetian, Philip Knoll, Zohar Lazar, Amy Lincoln, Nancy Lorenz, Lucy Mink, Andy Mister, JJ Miyaoka-Pakola, Erin O'Keefe, Mark Olshansky, Gary Petersen, Peggy Reeves, Walter Robinson, Katia Santibanez, Andrew Small, Cary Smith, Lisa Sylvester, Barbara Takenaga, Rose Tannenbaum, Nichole Van Beek, and Valaire Van Slyck.