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Britta Deardorff: Red Liar Paintings at Bunker259
9/12/2014- 12/12/2014


REGINA REX at Bunker259

259 Banker Street, Brooklyn, NY 11222
info@reginarex.org | 347-460-7739

Opening Reception:
Friday September 12th, 7-10pm


Regina Rex is very pleased to present a solo show of new work by Brooklyn artist Britta Deardorff at Bunker259. Drawing on intuition, symbolism, and innate graphic powers, Deardorff creates charged images in which archetypal iconography, text, and checkerboard patterns overlay and cultivate an aggressive physicality. Deardorff incorporates sawdust, clay, and sand into her paint to create an earthen rocky texture, an effect of naturalism which is then contradicted by a surface coating of saturated reds, fluorescent oranges, discordant fertile greens, whites and blacks. In combination with the recurrence of snakes, silhouetted hands, and spiky tendrils the sum effect is one of animus and an anxious mysticism.

Red Liar Paintings will open in coordination with Greenpoint Gallery night, Friday, September 12th, 7-10 pm. The show will also be open during Greenpoint Open Studios, October 3-5th, 2-6pm, and by appointment. Contact info@reginarex.org or call 347-460-7739 to schedule an appointment.

DIRECTIONS:
Bunker 259 is located at 259 Banker Street, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 11222. Its a 10-minute walk from the Nassau stop on the G train. For more info visit: http://www.bunker259.org




Red Liar #3
2014
oil, acrylic, clay, charcoal and sawdust on panel
41 x 51 inches


Red Liar #2
2014
oil, acrylic, clay, charcoal and sawdust on panel
51 x 61 inches


Red Liar #1
2014
oil, acrylic, clay, charcoal and sawdust on panel
89.5 x 49 inches


Installation view of Britta Deardorff: Red Liar Paintings


Installation view of Britta Deardorff: Red Liar Paintings


Installation view of Britta Deardorff: Red Liar Paintings


Detail of Red Liar #3


Detail of Red Liar #1