When: Thursday, August 4, 2016 - Sunday, September 4, 2016 (All day)
Where:
The Hole NYC
312 Bowery, New York, NY 10012
Tags: architecture, exhibition
The Hole NYC
Description: Works in this show take a flat approach to figuration (though we couldn’t call the show “Flatlands” because the Whitney show just did) and this abuttment of areas of color to produce the figure here is both rudimentary and nuanced. Maja Djordjevic (b. 1990 Serbia) paints large oil paintings that look like quick MS Paint sketch ups. The women have blue squares for eyes, a scribble of yellow for hair and a big jaggedy red mouth, always yelling. Though abject as anything I’ve ever seen, the paintings inexplicably have positive titles, as in the above, “Be Happy — I Love You”.