GALLERY TALK | A TIME BEFORE WE WERE BORN | WITH EXHIBITION CURATOR RAPHAEL RUBINSTEIN

Exhibition curator Raphael Rubinstein will discuss how each of the painters presented in A Time Before We Were Born have drawn on existing mythologies, or invented their own, to create visions of paradise that speak to a deeply embedded human need for images of hope and harmony. Spanning multiple generations and decades, some of the works in the exhibition present narratives with multi-layered references to art history and world religion while others create imagined worlds populated with allegorical figures and motifs proposing mythic narratives of innocence and fantasy. The show, which was inspired by the work of Po Kim, an artist whose paintings powerfully convey the depths of human experience, also includes works that reveal a darker side of Arcadia, hinting at the injustices that are often concealed within fantasies of earthly paradise.

During his talk, Rubinstein will look at diverse visions of the “time before we were born” through an examination of the works by the 14 artists in the exhibition: Susan Bee, Katherine Bradford, JooYoung Choi, Rafael Ferrer, Roy de Forest, Paul Georges, Chris Johanson, Po Kim, Fay Lansner, Judith Linhares, Donna Moylan, Jan Müller, Archie Rand and Purvis Young.

EXHIBITION DETAILS:

Exhibition: A Time Before We Were Born: Visions of Arcadia in Contemporary Painting
Curator: Raphael Rubinstein
Artists: Susan Bee, Katherine Bradford, JooYoung Choi, Rafael Ferrer, Roy de Forest, Paul Georges, Chris Johanson, Po Kim, Fay Lansner, Judith Linhares, Donna Moylan, Jan Müller, Archie Rand, and Purvis Young
Venue: Sylvia Wald & Po Kim Art Gallery, 417 Lafayette Street, 4th Floor, NYC
Date: June 26 through September 29, 2018.
Gallery Talk: Thursday, September 13th, 2018, 6:30 PM
Gallery opening times: 11am-6pm, Tuesday thru Saturday
Inquiries: 212.598.1155