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Multiple Artists

From a whisper to a scream

New York

5월 25일–2017년 9월 1일

Detail of wall work by Jeffrey Gibson

201 Chrystie Street

New York, NY 10002

Lehmann Maupin is pleased to present From a whisper to a scream, a group exhibition featuring work by Teresita Fernández, Jeffrey Gibson, and Shirazeh Houshiary. The artists in this exhibition all draw from the visual vocabulary of Minimalism in their use of industrial materials, deliberate restriction of form, and engagement of physical space, but do so in order to communicate social, political, and cultural meaning in a way that the 1960s movement always resisted. Through painting and sculpture, each artist transforms this typically self-referential genre into one that speaks as loudly as narrative imagery.

Teresita Fernández (b. 1968, Miami, FL; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) creates vast abstracted landscapes of minimal color and form that attempt to capture how we experience our surroundings, and how we define our environments in relation to identity and citizenship. For this exhibition, Fernandez will present 3:37 p.m. (2001), a wall installation composed of hundreds of acrylic cubes in seven colors of the light spectrum, a reductive representation of a rainbow captured at a specific moment in time, 3:37 p.m. Fernández’s work is characterized by an interest in perception and the psychology of looking, so she encourages the viewer to conjure up his or her own personal associations with the landscape, which in turn become part of the meaning behind the work.

Installation view of From a whisper to a scream at Lehmann Maupin New York
Installation Views: 1 / 3
Wall work by Jeffrey Gibson

Jeffrey Gibson

BELIEVE! BELIEVE!, 2017

Wall work by Jeffrey Gibson

Jeffrey Gibson

Between Rabbit and Fox, 2017

Installation view of From a whisper to a scream at Lehmann Maupin New York
Installation Views: 1 / 3
Wall work by Jeffrey Gibson

Jeffrey Gibson

I HAVE STRENGTH LEFT, 2017

Wall work by Jeffrey Gibson

Jeffrey Gibson

MAKING THE BEST OF A BAD SITUATION, 2017

Wall work by Jeffrey Gibson

Jeffrey Gibson

TRUST AND BELIEVE, 2017

Painting by Shirazeh Houshiary

쉬라제 후쉬아리

Meander, 2016

도서 및 에디션

Exhibition Artists

Portrait of Teresita Fernández

테레시타 페르난데스의 작품은 지하에서 우주, 국경, 그리고 인간이 내면에 간직하고 있는 이해하기 어려운 정신적 풍경에 이르기까지 다양한 풍경을 구성하는 요소를 광범위하게 재조명하는 것이 특징이다. 페르난데스는 물질, 인간, 장소 사이의 밀접한 관계를 풀어내고, 땅과 풍경에 대한 고정된 개념을 시적으로 도전하며 우리가 상상하고 정의하는 방식에 내재된 폭력과 식민지화의 역사를 작품으로 선보인다. 권력, 가시성, 삭제에 대한 질문은 페르난데스 작품의 중요한 주제이며, 그녀는 아름다움과 사회 정치적인 것, 친밀한 것, 거대한 것을 서로 얽히게 하는 미묘한 방식으로 이러한 주제에 맞서고 있다. 페르난데스는 풍경에 의인화된 감성을 불어넣으며 “당신은 풍경을 바라보지만, 그 풍경은 또한 당신을 돌아본다. 풍경은 당신이 보는 것보다 보이지 않는 것에 관한 것이다.”라고 말한다.

페르난데스는 맥아더 재단 펠로우이며 크리에이티브 캐피탈 어워드, 메리디안 문화 외교상, 구겐하임 펠로우십, 루이스 컴포트 티파니 비엔날레 어워드, 미국 로마 아카데미 펠로우십(AFAAR), 시각예술 분야 국립예술기금 개인 예술가 보조금 등 수많은 상을 수상했다. 2011년에는 버락 오바마 대통령에 의해 미국 미술위원회 위원으로 임명되었다. 그녀는 100년 역사의 연방 패널에서 활동하는 최초의 라틴계 여성으로, 디자인과 미학에 관한 국가적 사안에 대해 대통령과 의회에 자문을 제공한다. 2016년에는 포드 재단과 함께 미국 라틴계 예술의 미래 심포지엄을 기획하고, 감독하여 전국의 예술가와 큐레이터, 박물관 관장, 학자들이 모여 문화 기관 내에서의 가시성 방식을 논의하는 자리를 마련했다.

Portrait of Shirazeh Houshiary

Shirazeh Houshiary (b. 1955, Shiraz, Iran; lives and works in London, United Kingdom) makes painting, sculpture, and animation that seek to challenge viewers’ perceptions of time, space, and materiality. Her works often engage opposing ideas and states of being, including transparency and opacity, sound and silence, surface and depth, and presence and absence. From a distance, her paintings are reminiscent of a swirling galaxy, but as the viewer draws closer, the meticulousness, detail, and hidden Arabic letters that make up her amorphous forms begin to unfold. The universe, with its contradiction, paradox, and complexity is a core subject matter in her work. The Arabic words embedded in her compositions are a juxtaposition of the opposing phrases “I am” and “I am not,” oscillating freely between focused and unfocused states, where the meaning of our existence becomes superfluous and lost in Houshiary’s imagined cosmos.

Houshiary’s painting technique involves the successive layering of pigment and line, a laborious process that often takes several months to complete. Her surfaces are composed of intricate patterns that appear to pulse, undulate, and recede into the canvas, like a veil or membrane. She takes a similar methodical approach to her dynamic sculptures, constructing towers out of glass or aluminum bricks that, layer by layer, seem to emerge from the floor. Each vertical plane of bricks echoes the original shape of the structure’s footprint incrementally rotated to the maximum degree the form will allow before the resulting helix shape becomes unstable. For each work, Houshiary attempts to visualize subjects that are inherently intangible—an echo, human breath, or memory.