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TRULY, MADLY, DEEPLY
July 2- August 2, 2009
Louise Belcourt
Chris Duncan
Jon Rappleye
Curated by Jeff Bailey
OPENING RECEPTION AND
GALLERY TALK
Saturday July 11, 2009 4:00-6:00pm
(Chris Duncan, "Absence Presents," 2008, spray paint on mirror, 42 x 42 inches)
The gallery at Spencertown Academy Arts Center presents Truly, Madly, Deeply, a three-person exhibition curated by Jeff Bailey and featuring the work of Jon Rappleye, Chris Duncan, and Louise Belcourt.
Jon Rappleye’s drawings depict a variety of birds and animals that inhabit unnatural terrains. In Chris Duncan’s paintings and drawings, vaporous shapes and abstract patterns float within vast galaxy-like spaces. Louise Belcourt’s gouaches and oil paintings feature bulbous cushion-like forms that mingle and move mysteriously. Uniting the distinct forms and presentations particular to each artist’s work is a strongly felt connection to nature and the environment.
JOHN RAPPLEYE
A deer with one antler stares stoically in Jon Rappleye’s Nightwood Bloom. The other antler has fallen on an ashen landscape and more lay nearby. Wire-like shapes protrude. Foreboding skies and icy mountains dominate the horizon. Rappleye’s menagerie of animals is meticulously drawn and recognizable through their specific details, but their biology seems altered. The animals strive to persevere even though their environment has inexplicably changed.
Jon Rappleye has had solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery; Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles; the Jersey City Museum, New Jersey, and Clough-Hanson Gallery, Rhodes College, Memphis. His work is included in the collections of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas; The Progressive Art Collection, Ohio, and United States Art in Embassies. He lives and works in Jersey City, New Jersey.
READ MORE ABOUT JON RAPPLEYEJon Rappleye, "Nightwood Bloom" 2007 Acrylic and spray enamel on paper 42.5" X 87.125"
CHRIS DUNCAN
If Rappleye’s drawings chart a world that is conceivable, then Chris Duncan’s paintings evoke what lies beyond it. In Duncan’s painting A New Way to Cope, a large multi-colored spiral, composed of primary colors in compressed angular shapes, spins and swirls in a blackened sky. Rays of light in different hues surround this kaleidoscope shape, while thin clouds float and drift nearby. The darkness goes to the edge of the painting, while each side of the work is painted in a bright color, causing a slight outward glow. Stark color contrasts of light and dark seek to bridge opposing forces: between positive and negative, hopeful and despairing. A ghost like form inhabits Absence Presents. The shape suggests a human form, but it is our own reflection that we glimpse at the edges.
Chris Duncan has had solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery, and Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco. His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; Western Project, Los Angeles; Samson Projects, Boston and New York University. Duncan is the co-creator of the art based zine project, HOT AND COLD. Duncan lives and works in Oakland, California.
Chris Duncan," A New Way to Cope, " 2008, wood putty, spray paint, acrylic, gouache, graphite and colored pencil on panel, 72" x 96" Louise Belcourt
Louise Belcourt begins her gouaches outdoors, inspired by a landscape that is unspoiled and close to the water. Her gouaches and oil paintings are filled with light. It’s the light of a clear day, of skies that seem to stretch forever. In "Hedge Painting #25," simplified forms float in a clear and crisp space. The mostly green shapes shimmy playfully against one another, suggesting growth and regeneration.
Louise Belcourt has had solo exhibitions at Jeff Bailey Gallery, New York, and with galleries in San Francisco and Paris. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles; Greenberg Van Doren, New York; Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington; the Brooklyn Museum; the Fleming Museum, Burlington, Vermont, and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina. She lives in Brooklyn and Metis-sur-Mer, Ontario, Canada.
Louise Belcourt, "Hedge Painting #23," 2007, oil on canvas, 42"x 61"
GUEST CURATOR JEFF BAILEY
JEFF BAILEY GALLERY | 511 W 25TH ST | NO. 207 | NY, NY 10001| 212.989.0156 | www.baileygallery.comJeff Bailey Gallery opened in March 2003 in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan. The gallery exhibits the work of emerging and mid-career artists working in a variety of media. Of the eighteen artists represented, seventeen of them had their first solo exhibition in New York with the gallery.
The gallery's goal is to offer an inviting forum where collectors, curators and critics can discover emerging talent. The gallery strives to inspire visitors with eclectic exhibitions that foster connoisseurship.
Works by gallery artists have been acquired by numerous museums, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina.
The gallery has been a member of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA) since 2006.
Jeff Bailey has worked with several New York galleries, including Richard L. Feigen & Co., a gallery that deals in old masters, 19th and 20th century and contemporary art. He received his BFA from New York University.
Previous gallery exhibitions at Spencertown Academy Arts Center.
2009
American Color, Woodland Chic2008
One of a Kind, Not Printed on Paper, Crit 32007
The Map Show, Considering Materials, On Your Mark, Arcadia, Yard
2006
Dustin/Reynolds, Representing the Self, Silver & Glass, Reframing Nature , Crit I, Abstractions Robin Tewes
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