Lehmann Maupin is pleased to announce the solo exhibition of new paintings by Brazilain artist Adriana Varejão. The exhibition will open Friday, 7 January 2000, and continue through 12 February 2000.

The visually arresting work of Adriana Varejão draws on her heritage as an artist living and working in Brazil. Incorporating both popular and art historical images in her painting, and appropriating potent remnants of Brazil's colonial past, she constructs sculptural paintings that often take the fragmented or eviscerated human body as their subject. Extremely tactile and often saturated in blood-red hues, Varejão's highly visceral work recalls the pain and pleasure that accompanies both colonialism and the creative process. Her work defies narrow classification. Although her work is of a culture, it reaches beyond geographical boundaries.