
Ashley Bickerton
New York
May 6–26, 2006

540 W 26th St
New York, NY 10001
Lehmann Maupin will present an exhibition of works by Ashley Bickerton together with Sonnabend Gallery. The exhibition will include early works representing several significant periods in Bickerton's oeuvre, as well as new paintings and monotypes.
Produced for the Visiting Artists Program at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute, these new works are multi-layered and include lithography, cast papers and monoprints. Some measure two inches deep, with etched pits creating the illusion of black holes around the edges, others feature embroideries, drawings, furniture and photographic montages, which have been digitally manipulated. In these works, Bickerton creates elaborate and disturbing visions through his use of hyper-real images and desolate environments. In these landscapes, idealized representations of women and children gather, while eerie green men with tropical flora antennae appear to emerge from nearby pools of water. In other works, the women and children are absent, leaving the partially submerged creatures to take center stage. Bottles, toothpaste tubes, and paint cans are among the objects pinned to these landscapes.





