Opening Reception Tuesday, September 10, 2002, 6 - 8 PM
Irena Popiashvili and Marisa Newman of SUITE 106 are pleased to announce the
inauguration of SUITE 106’s Mercer Street gallery space with a solo exhibition by Edy Ferguson. Ferguson will present a series of paintings inspired and inflected by music. She will create a special environment in which the paintings will be shown. This environment involves music and performance created in collaboration with musician I Sound, go-go dancers and site-specific wall drawings. This particular setting staged by the artist involving a musician and a dance troupe heightens the visual understanding of the paintings and vice versa. Ferguson wishes to recreate the atmosphere in which the paintings were first inspired, the underground rock and cabaret scene in New York City.
With the opening extravaganza, the artist comments on the importance given to fame and recognition. In American commercial culture, she feels these illusions of grandeur usually develop into banal, meaningless spectacles. In the words of Ray Davies: “Everybody's a dreamer and everybody's a star/ everybody's in show biz, it doesn't matter who you are.” Edy Ferguson paints pop icons layered together with less known musicians and personal friends. She incorporates images appropriated from current tabloids and vintage periodicals until her paintings emerge as stimulating mini-spectacles that also touch on the saddest ironies in life.
Edy Ferguson graduated from Washington University in St. Louis and completed her MFA at Hunter College. She was part of the PS1 International Studio Program in 1997/98. In 1999 and 2000, she directed three performances in France and New York involving live music, dance and video. Her videos have been screened at The Anchorage under the Brooklyn Bridge, Rockefeller Center, and Artists’ Space.
Irena Popiashvili and Marisa Newman of SUITE 106 are pleased to announce the
inauguration of SUITE 106’s Mercer Street gallery space with a solo exhibition by Edy Ferguson. Ferguson will present a series of paintings inspired and inflected by music. She will create a special environment in which the paintings will be shown. This environment involves music and performance created in collaboration with musician I Sound, go-go dancers and site-specific wall drawings. This particular setting staged by the artist involving a musician and a dance troupe heightens the visual understanding of the paintings and vice versa. Ferguson wishes to recreate the atmosphere in which the paintings were first inspired, the underground rock and cabaret scene in New York City.