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On Saturday October 24, Sonnabend Gallery will open an exhibition of new works by Clifford Ross.
The exhibit, featuring 18 large-scale black and white images (Hurricanes XLIX-LXXII) photographed off Georgica Beach in East Hampton during last year’s hurricane season, marks Ross’s return to the subject after nearly a decade of works centered on the subject of Mount Sopris in Colorado.
Ross has said of his new Hurricane series:
"I re-entered the sea with my painter’s eye and a digital photographic system as my brush. The subject is the same, but my new approach has enabled me to capture more dramatic moments, and sweeping views, while revealing more intimate details – a curious dichotomy. The challenge was to shatter the tendency of digital photography to present itself as a remote, “clean” truth. I want my images to make a clear and powerful statement but end their dialogue with the viewer with a question – one which leaves the viewer with a sense of wonder – and a need to look at nature further on their own to find the answer.”
Further information is available at www.cliffordross.com.
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Parallel to this show, Sonnabend Gallery will also present “Calaveras Gnosticos,” a new series of drawings by Robert Yarber.
In this series of vibrantly colored drawings on paper, Yarber creates a world of deranged revelry, exploding cigars, and grinning, translucent cadavers. His dapper skeleton hero character appears throughout the drawings engaged in such activities as fishing for cyanide, playing the slot machines, chewing on wax lips, and riding through a high mountain pass on a cart pulled by chickens.
This depiction of “Gnostic skeletons” draws on the traditions of the “laughing skulls” of Posada and the Mexican lithographers of the early 20th century, Romantic landscape painting, biker art, the Westerns of John Huston and Sam Peckinpah, rock posters, black velvet paintings from Juarez and the tantric art of Nepal.
Yarber’s jolly skeleton trickster proclaims, “The collapse of the NOW couldn’t have happened at a better time.”
The exhibitions will continue through December 19.
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