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Press Release Checklist Maira Kalman I Can't Stand All The Excitement October 28 - December 10, 2005 Maira Kalman's second gallery exhibition features a new medium for author/ painter/illustrator and designer Kalman- embroidery. She has created twenty new works which combine image/drawings and texts, including a large four-panel work quoting Goethe. Aphorisms include "seize the day," "everybody should be who they are" and "good things come to those who wait". The images themselves are based on photographs from Bellocq to snapshots. Although the text is determined in advance, the drawings are unplanned and embroidered directly on the fabric. The exhibition will also include dress/sculptures made by Kalman. The interaction of image and text has been at the core of Kalman's previous work in her many books and illustrations, but the embroidery is something new. "My mother and my aunt embroidered, and I love cloth" says Kalman. She often uses old linens as the support for her works and they have a meditative homespun feeling. The exhibition coincides with the release of Kalman's latest book project, Strunk and White's The Elements of Style Illustrated (Penguin Press). She has also designed a musical production based on The Elements of Style in collaboration with composer Nico Muhly which will premier in the main reading room of the New York Public Library on October 19th. "The audience is going to sit at the tables, and the musicians will stand on the balcony…the last song will have everyone singing together in one big cacophony." Altogether October should be a very exciting month for Maira Kalman and her admirers. MAIRA KALMAN I CAN'T STAND ALL THE EXCITEMENT OCTOBER 28 - DECEMBER 10, 2005 Entrance: 1. To the stars, 2005 silk and cotton thread on burlap variable dimensions Main Gallery East Wall: 2. I can’t stand all the excitement, 2005 silk and cotton thread on linen & cotton 26 1/2 x 27 1/4” 3. The situation was not so good for Goethe and Greeba , 2005 silk and cotton thread on linen & cotton 21 1/4 x 17” 4. Tear after tear is falling, 2005 silk and cotton thread on linen & cotton 18 1/2 x 24” North Wall: I feel a sense of dread Tear after tear is falling My rigid heart is tenderly unmanned What I possess seems something far away And what had disappeared proves real Goethe 5. I feel a sense of dread, 2005 silk and cotton thread on linen & cotton 49 1/2 x 19 1/2” 6. My rigid heart, 2005 silk and cotton thread on linen & cotton 49 1/2 x 19 1/2” 7. What I possess, 2005 silk and cotton thread on linen & cotton 49 1/2 x 19 1/2” 8. What had disappeared, 2005 silk and cotton thread on linen & cotton 49 1/2 x 19 1/2” West Wall: 9. White Dress, 2005 variable dimensions 10. Pink Dress, 2005 variable dimensions South Wall: 11. Alls well that ends well, 2005 silk and cotton thread on linen & cotton 24 5/8 x 19 3/4” 12. Sieze the day, 2005 silk and cotton thread on linen & cotton 19 x 17” 13. Good things come to those who wait, 2005 silk and cotton thread on linen & cotton 19 x 17” 14. Time will tell, 2005 silk and cotton thread on linen & cotton 19 3/4 x 20 3/4” 15. Don’t cry over spilt milk, 2005 silk and cotton thread on linen & cotton 25 1/2 x 25” 16. Everybody should be who they are, 2005 silk and cotton thread on linen & cotton 26 1/2 x 27 1/4” top For additional information contact the gallery back |
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