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March Issue 2008
Joie Lassiter Gallery in Charlotte, NC, Features Works by Hooper Turner and Elizabeth Turk
Joie Lassiter Gallery in Charlotte, NC, will present an exhibition of works by Hooper Turner and Elizabeth Turk, on view from Mar. 7 through Apr. 30, 2008.
Elizabeth Turk's mission is to bring beauty,
which she believes has continually sustained humanity, back into
contemporary art. Intensely personal and beautiful, she describes
her "Magical Garden" series as depicting emotions dispersed
like seeds to the greater world, maybe forgotten, until they grow
into something and shape our lives in an undeniable way.
The "Magical Garden" sits behind a house whose interior
has seen the drama of relationships that make up a full life.
The garden has a big tree with many shadows and dense overgrown
portions that result from those relationships but is a sentimental,
ideal, and lovely vision in its entirety. Turk's work is filled
with layers of allegory and in the end represents "a romantic
ideal of happiness, and a happy ideal of romance."
Turk received her Masters of Fine Arts from the Rinehart School
of Sculpture at Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore,
MD. Her work resides in the permanent collections of the Hirshhorn
Museum, the Corcoran Gallery and the National Museum for Women
in the Arts in Washington, DC.
Hooper Turner's work expands the traditional
boundaries of still-life painting. He chooses images from mail
order catalogues, and plays with the concept of "nature mort"
by painting objects that depict things that were once alive but
have been transformed into banal sculptures. He produces tension
between word and image by including text that refers back to the
image he has only ever seen on paper.
The inclusion of text and image limits our ability to "see
through" the paint and text to the actual optical forms arranged.
In the end, Turner's interest is captured by "the vitality
of painting, as it breathes life into these consumerist images
in which we drown daily, and the death-like nature of the pictured
objects, phantom forms on the catalogue page that appear real
but whose actual existence and value remain questionable."
Turner received his Master of Fine Arts from the University of Georgia in Athens and currently lives and works in New York City.
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