CB1 Gallery artists, Chuck Agro and Laura Krifka, in upcoming group exhibition at BravinLee Programs, New York, NY
Introspective, a group exhibition of self portraits
February 4 – March 19, 2016
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 4, 2016, 6 – 8 p.m.
BravinLee Programs, 526 West 26th Street #211, New York, NY 10001
1-212-462-4404
Chuck Agro, My Face is a Sweat Stained Shirt, 2016.
The self portrait is the lingua franca of the smartphone era. The scourage and proliferation of “selfes” and “profiles” is certainly indicative that we are enduring the best of times-as well as the worst of times in the apothesosis of onanistic humanism. Despite its utter debasement in the hand-held device, adolesentalized epoch, the self portrait in the 21st Century remains an elevated, vital, interesting, important and revealing genre. The show includes nearly 60 self-portraits, some are literal, others allude to autobiography in a psychological or metaphorical way.
Featuring over 50 artists including Chuck Agro, Janine Antoni, Robert Arneson, Max Beckmann, Delia Brown, Jim Butler, Chuck Close, Judith Henry, Deborah Kass, Kurt Kauper, Laura Krifka, Carl Ostendarp, Cindy Sherman and Devan Shimoyama. See BravinLee Programs’ website for more info.
Laura Krifka, Arrowhead, 2013