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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Glass Ceiling & HorseOctober 28 – December 30, 2011 Opening Friday, October 28, 2011 6 – 9 pm
ATLANTA, October 24, 2011 – Hagedorn Foundation Gallery is pleased to present two exhibitions of LA artist Jill Greenberg’s innovative works. “Horse,” on the gallery’s first floor, is Greenberg’s nine piece exploration of horse portraiture. Like her earlier depictions of celebrities, political candidates, crying babies and dogs, on the covers of ATLANTIC, FOCUS, NEW YORK, the SUNDAY TIMES, among others, this series explores the large scale draped ground subject in a powerful, emotional and personalized way. Lush as oil paintings, with the excitement of rock and roll pix and the thrill of the voyeur looking at a private moment, these images depict the muscled, coiffed, polished undulating bodies of horses. As attuned to the animals’ anatomy and personality as the 18th century horse portraitist George Stubbs, and the photographer Edweard Muybridge, as memorable as Jacques Louis David’s white stallion in his work “Napoleon at the St. Bernard Pass,” the pieces are classics. A perfectionist in the “darkroom” of the computer, Greenberg’s large fluid and expressive animals glow with Fauvist highlights. Her meditative close up black and white images are reminiscent of the editorial work of Avedon, Bassman, and Faurer. On the second floor, we present Greenberg’s pop, high chroma “Glass Ceiling” series. Large in scale and in impact, these pieces highlight the female body underwater. With Bonnard’s sensitivity to light and reflection and Ingres’s love of the female form of his time, Greenberg’s work stimulates discussion of the position of women in society today, their beauty and superficial appeal vs. their capability and inner strengths. Are these gorgeous, barely clad, stiletto swimmers active sirens or passive mermaids? In an era of relative moral and political apathy, a debate about how fully dimensional women in society can be ensues, veiled in luscious expressive color. Noted for her portraits “soaked in realism and imagination,” Ms. Greenberg is booking portrait commissions through the gallery. For specifics, please contact us at: T 404.492.7718 or email brenda@hfgallery.org Selected Private Collections: Selected Public Collections:
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