Featuring Artists William Frucht, Mary
Lesser, and Michael Zack
Extra! Extra! Don't miss City Gallery’s latest
exhibit, CITY PAPER featuring artists
William Frucht, Mary Lesser, and Michael Zack, on view from Thursday, June 28 -
Sunday, July 29. There will be an Opening Reception on Thursday, July 12 from 5-7pm, and
an Artists’ Talk on July 29 at 2pm.
With a focus
on medium, CITY PAPER presents three diverse artists working primarily on
paper, each with their own interpretations of time and place.
William Frucht’s haunting photography
explores the heartless beauty of decay and the edges of civilization. There, he
explains, “time stops, wind stops, there
is no sound, even the dust stops falling. What you feel is different too: no
happiness but an ecstatic sense of order, no sadness but a restless, willful
movement toward one knows not what. All is forgotten, there is no world, only a
former world.”
In similar dreamlike environments, artist Mary Lesser
explores the dissonance
between joy and excitement, angst and loneliness. In her distinct paintings —
intentionally naïve with tertiary hues of pinks, yellows, olive greens, grays
and reds — she considers issues of gun violence, war, environmental
destruction, urban pollution, and solitude while simultaneously portraying the
humor, ridiculousness, and child-like beauty of human existence.
One can
imagine that the silhouetted figures created by print maker Michael Zack must
surely inhabit the same worlds imagined by Frucht and Lesser. Shorn of distinguishing facial features and clothing detail, his
figures become anyone and everyone, yet they are uniquely individual and
somewhat mysterious. Taken out of context and rearranged into a panorama that
has a narrative all its own, the figures naturally relate to each other and the
space in which they are placed, supported by a vibrant, subtle and nuanced
range of colors.
The CITY PAPER exhibit and
events are free and open to the public. Refreshments
will be served. City Gallery is located at 994 State Street, New Haven, CT
06511. Gallery hours are Thursday - Sunday, 12 noon - 4pm. For further
information please contact City Gallery, info@city-gallery.org, www.city-gallery.org.
