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Harkawik is pleased to present Objects, Intuitions, Concepts, a two-person exhibition with Philadelphia-based painter Elizabeth Crawford (b. 1959) and New York-based painter Ted Mineo (b. 1981). The exhibition counterposes practices defined by rigorous, concentrated looking, by a surgically narrowed set of aesthetic concerns, and a playful consideration of the myriad social, cultural and economic values coded into the objects we encounter on a daily basis. In both cases, old master technique is put to the service of something alien and provocative. For Mineo, the “stuff” of the paintings—their material characteristics, seductive colors, and discomfiting biological protuberances—seems to exist in service of a century-old clash between the ideological purity of the modernist grid, and the formless contamination of base materialism. Crawford shows us the effects, but not the origins, of Dutch Golden Age still life, stripping away the displays of abundance, overt symbolism, and c…
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Harkawik is pleased to present Objects, Intuitions, Concepts, a two-person exhibition with Philadelphia-based painter Elizabeth Crawford (b. 1959) and New York-based painter Ted Mineo (b. 1981). The exhibition counterposes practices defined by rigorous, concentrated looking, by a surgically narrowed set of aesthetic concerns, and a playful consideration of the myriad social, cultural and economic values coded into the objects we encounter on a daily basis. In both cases, old master technique is put to the service of something alien and provocative. For Mineo, the “stuff” of the paintings—their material characteristics, seductive colors, and discomfiting biological protuberances—seems to exist in service of a century-old clash between the ideological purity of the modernist grid, and the formless contamination of base materialism. Crawford shows us the effects, but not the origins, of Dutch Golden Age still life, stripping away the displays of abundance, overt symbolism, and c…
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