Exhibition at Cavin Morris Gallery

Exhibition Extended to January 16, 2010

Plant Body, Animal Body

Review at RomanovGrave.com

Cavin Morris Gallery

December 3, 2009- January 16, 2010

Opening: Thursday, December 3rd, 6:00 – 8:00

Cavin Morris Cavin Morris, Daniel Wiener
Hyungsub Shin Daniel Wiener

Artists include:

Jose Bedia, Mort Golub, Keith Goodhart, Yuko Oda, Lubos Plny, Tim Rowan, Christine Sefolosha, Hyungshib Shin, Ignacio Carles-Tolra, Ryo Tohonaga, Daniel Wiener and Gregory Van Maanen


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Cavin-Morris Gallery is pleased to present Plant Body, Animal Body, a continuation of exhibitions begun nearly fifteen years ago when the gallery was in its Soho location. This group show brings together gallery and invited artists who explore interspecies references and connections in their works through anthropomorphism, shape shifting, and metaphysical insinuation. We will feature gallery artists: Gregory Van Maanen whose wolf skull drawings serve as amulets against violence and political idiocy, Ignacio Carles-Tolra’s whose wise amorphic beings caught the eye of Jean Dubuffet, and Lubos Plny’s obsessive and intricate insights into biology invite feelings of repulsion and attraction from the viewer. Mort Golub’s masks are crossroads of cultural patination and form, while Christina Sefolosha’s hallucinatory voyages on paper merge animal and human into archaic dream states, and anonymous artists hands’ in Mongolia diagram healing drawings based on tree forms. Included are Keith Goodhart’s limbic call-ups of protective energies for his sheep ranch and Tim Rowan’s subtle eidetic projections from local New York bluestone. Invited guest artists are the haunting otherworldly sculptures and drawings by Ryo Toyonaga, Jose Bedia’s Santeria portrait of Yemaya, the mysterious botanical evocations of Hyungsub Shin, the ethereal sensual paintings of Yuko Oda, and the simultaneous madcap and sinister sculptures of Daniel Wiener. The exhibition’s wide ground satisfies our obsessive need for dancing with the eclectic; we regard it as part of our 25th anniversary series.

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Reviews

An Ethos of Industrious Neurosis

by David Brody, ArtCritical.com
David Brody, in a wonderful article, writes "Wiener's exploratory, morph-or-die universe is the reverse of our inertial one: objects never remain at rest."

A Mess of Art

by Blake Gopnik, The Daily Beast

Haiku Review

by Peter Frank, The Huffington Post

Words with the Artist: Daniel Wiener, Part 1 and Part 2

by Jessica Pleasants, FXFOWLE

Daniel Wiener at Calvin Morris Gallery

by Ephraim Birnbaum, Romanov Grave

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by James Kalm/Lauren Monk, ArtReview.com
A walk-through of my recent show at Lesley Heller Workspace, in April.

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