OOBS
press release
Nancy Davidson
Nicasio Fernandez
Maureen St. Vincent
November 30th – December 30th, 2018
Opening Reception: Friday November 30th, 7-9PM
OOBS brings together three artists that depict physicality using suggestive and often surreal forms. From the erotic grace of Maureen St.Vincent’s nipple-scapes, to Nancy Davidson’s sunbathing phallus, to Nicasio Fernandez’s wonky and exaggerated figures, these artists are finding humor in bodily forms, and with pleasure. The paintings and sculpture in this show are grounded in a roundness that points to flesh, subverting our expectations as we decipher the imagery. There is something giddy in these particular presentations of sexuality, the boldness of colors, forms and implied narratives feel like freedom.
Nancy Davidson’s works are “domineering and highly sexualized, comically flirting with the viewer with a wink and a nod, but also genuinely erotic”. As Nancy herself states, “the work is engaged with spectatorship and the interaction, reaction, and attention to an implied social structure that sets up an almost irrepressible release of laughter…” Nancy Davidson is an interdisciplinary artist, working primarily in sculpture and installation. Her work has been shown at the Institute of Contemporary Art(ICA), the Corcoran in Washington D.C., the Wight Gallery at UCLA, as well as the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles and at Robert Miller Gallery in New York, among others. She lives and works in New York City.
www.nancydavidson.com
Nicasio Fernandez’s paintings stretch daily life into an absurd territory by exploring what it means to be human. Within these inventive paintings exists a cast of grotesque figures with over-exaggerated body parts and unnatural skin tones, such as sun burnt orange and anxious magenta. Nicasio says how “these figures are overwhelmed emotionally trying to adapt to their given situations. A feeling that’s relatable on many levels.” Pictorially influenced by Otto Dix, Peter Saul, Judith Linhares, the Chicago Imagists and cartoons from Chuck Jones, Fernandez’s vibrant paintings are occupied with ideas of cartoon-like violence, clumsiness, subtle humor, questionable mental and physical endurance and a parody of masculinity. The result is a psychological image soaked in a surrealistic display that is both entertaining and challenging. He lives and works in Mahopac, NY.
www.nicasiofernandez.com
Maureen St. Vincent uses a surrealist vocabulary to explore erotic pleasure and the part-body. Implying vestiges of bodily experience freed from rationality, her work results in a kind of disembodied erotica, or as Maureen says, “Disembodica”. This recent work has developed within and around custom made frames. She lives and works in San Francisco, CA.
www.maureenstvincent.com
Curated by Georgia Elrod
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