June 1 - 30, 2007, Thursday - Saturday 1-4
pm or by appointment
205 Housatonic St. Lenox MA 01240
Mr. Gruzis’s approach to lighting and
to cultural icons is both romantic and dark-humored. His black and white
ink drawings are visionary posters, displaying a “new-wave noir”
aesthetic that carries the viewer into a stylized and vapid world. A seductive
Southern California air is pervasive.
One painting becomes a three-dimensional installation with added backlighting
and sculptural mounting. Though prop-like, it is authentic, indicating
the dual relationship between sincerity and theatricality.
Another painting pays satirical homage to the women in Patrick Nagel’s
paintings of the 1970’s.
Evan Gruzis is from Milwaukee. He has lived in Los Angeles and now resides
in New York, where he is an MFA candidate in Combined Media at Hunter
College.
For more information, contact Scott Laugenour:
917 743 6548
scott@galleryboreas.com