WHAT'S SO FUNNY: Paintings by Dana Frankfort
June 03, 2005 — July 10, 2005
”What’s So Funny”
Paintings by Dana Frankfort
The Project Room : Recent Works by Mailena Braun and Thomas Lendvai
June 3 – July 10, 2005
Opening Reception June 3, 7 – 10 PM
Closing Music Event July 8, 2005, 9:30 PM – 12 AM
Featuring MC Cav, Nozomi Phoenix, and Electric Turn to Me
Dana Frankfort’s paintings are both signs and compelling images within themselves. Mixing emblematic gestures with what could be perceived as slogans, Frankfort’s paintings/signs suggest a formal beauty with their shape and construction.
Frankfort exploits abstraction’s aim of contemplation as well as billboards’ aim for attention. Frankfort paints and preserves the spontaneity of the gesture. Brushy words scream across and beneath layers of neon bright fields of color. The words sometimes overtake the color. Sometimes the color overtakes the words. Ultimately, Frankfort’s paintings are spare and fleeting moments where seemingly competing elements of popular and high culture combine musically to offer compelling experiences of text and painterly image.
The Project Room : Mailena Braun and Thomas Lendvai. Braun simply and poignantly attempts to understand a real-life event with her artwork, using materials at hand to create an abstract model of explosion. Braun translates the visual impact of a photo by juxtaposing object/image/shadow with still image/movement. Lendvai’s planar, rectilinear pieces have recently evolved into cylindrical forms, with curves introduced without having them suggest something drawn or handmade.
After Party June 3, 10 PM with live music featuring Turner Cody; followed by The Younger Sister Band.