David Musgrave at Luhring Augustine
531 West 24th Street
New York, NY 10011
March 21 - April 18, 2009
Opening Friday, March 20th, 6-8 pm
This week power house gallery Luhring Augustine hosts David Musgrave's first solo exhibition in New York. The show features drawings and sculptures created over the past two years, which explore his ongoing preoccupation with the abstraction inherent in representation and the transformative capacity of materials.
Musgrave's work examines the relation between thoughts and things, ideas and objects. He produces images and forms that unsettle distinctions between inner and outer realms. The apparent accessibility of the simple human or animal schema that underpins much of his imagery forms a counterpoint to Musgrave's many-layered approach. His drawings often resemble documents of artifacts that hint at the primitive or the paranormal. Close viewing reveals a highly detailed evocation of fictive but perfectly plausible surfaces created with graphite.
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