March 18 - May 2, 2010
Leo
Kesting Gallery Presents:
Brian Leo: This Air is Full
NEXT ART FAIR CHICAGO
April 29 - May 3
Opening Preview from 12 until 9pm April 29
VIEW THE CATALOG!
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Brian Leo's snoopy house installation - This Air is Full, has
been accepted for presentation in NEXT 2010 the Artropolis event held
for Art Chicago which is hosted by the Kennedy family. The installation
will be a smaller version of the exhibtion that has been showing at the
gallery and will mark the second time Brian Leo's work has been exhitbited
in Chicago during the Art Chicago Art fair week.
The opening preview will benefit the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
and will be held on Thursday April 29 starting at 12pm and running until
9pm.
Brian Leo: This Air is Full from Ethan H. Minsker on Vimeo.
Brian Leo’s latest exhibition, This Air is Full, questions the media’s role in terror, lies and false propaganda. Viewers are invited into the provocative realm of “garage-pop surrealism” examining everything from environmental destruction to tabloid sex scandals. In Brian’s world, nothing is off limits and things are never what they seem.
Seduced by a stunning
barrage of popular imagery, viewers quickly uncover haunting messages
hidden just beneath the surface. In Cliche (mixed media, 72 x
60, 2010), a terrorized image of a polar bear can be seen with the word
cliché on its head amongst an abstraction of modern warfare as
a symbol of environmental disaster.
With Nobel Peace Prize (mixed media, 72 x 60, 2010), Leo examines
the irony of both the Prize’s origins and Obama’s premature
reception of it through masturbatory gesture. In Tiger’s Speech,
(mixed media, 24 x 24, 2010), an image of a tiger’s head is seen
among a golf course in the distant background with the words “Is
it a Crime to Love Pussy” in the foreground. Each candy-coated image
sets the stage for Brian’s most salacious exhibition yet.
“The Snoopy house found in the center of the installation with a set of phalluses resembling the Twin Towers is a symbolic reference to the foreclosure financial crisis. In these hard times, even childhood icons are forced to leave their homes,” states gallerist David Kesting
Leo Kesting Gallery invites you to attend the silk screen event for Brian Leo’s new exhibition This Air is Full, April 10 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm. The exhibition runs until May 2. Brian Leo has exhibited in Tokyo, Chicago, Miami, Los Angeles, and galleries throughout New York City. He was also noted in the July 29, 2007 issue of the NY Times and the April 2006 Brooklyn Rail Armory Review. He holds a B.F.A. from Rutgers University/ Mason Gross School of Arts.
Leo Kesting Gallery launched in 2003 and developed an aggressive campaign to introduce new figurative artists to collectors and art supporters. Leo Kesting offers the art viewing public an opportunity to see forthcoming talents in an intimate setting where undiscovered, cutting-edge artists are presented to the contemporary art scene.
Leo Kesting Gallery
is located at 812 Washington Street at the corner of Gansevoort in Manhattan's
Meat Packing District. A, C, E or L train to 8th Ave and 14th Street or
1, 2, 3 train to 14th Street. Gallery hours are Tuesday to Sunday from
11am until 7pm.
Leo
Kesting Gallery
gallery
is located at 812 Washington St New York NY 10014
phone: 917-650-3760
at the corner of Ganesvoort
St
8th Ave 14th st A,C, E and L train Stop