David Musgrave's New York Solo Premiere

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.

Simon Evans First New York Solo Gallery Exhibition

Simon Evans, Symptoms of Loneliness, 2009
Pen, paper, scotch tape, correction fluidm 28 1/2 X 39 3/8 inches
Courtesy James Cohan Gallery, NY

Berlin-based artist, Simon Evans, has his first New York solo exhibition, Island Time, at James Cohan Gallery, February 20 – March 21, 2009. Previously a pro-skateboarder and writer, Evans broke into the art scene in 2003.

His drawings and collages are made from mundane materials such as found paper, scotch tape, pencil shavings and white out. Ironic, yet earnest, his drawings take the form of maps, charts, diary entries and cosmologies.