Bradford Bailey, Tova Carlin, Jacob Dyrenforth, Molly Smith, and Philip Travers,
June 14 - July 22, 2005
installation images selected works thumbnails
Press Release
KS Art is pleased to announce, BRADFORD BAILEY, TOVA CARLIN, JACOB DYRENFORTH, MOLLY SMITH, PHILIP TRAVERS (June 14 – July 22, 2005), an exhibition of works on paper. Although four of the exhibiting artists are under thirty years old (Molly Smith, Bradford Bailey, Jacob Dyrenforth and Tova Carlin), this show also includes work by New York-based artist, Philip Travers (b. 1914), making the case that vital, visionary new art can also be made by young and old alike.
Philip Travers (b. 1914) studied with George Grosz in 1940, but his primary influence, like many of the younger artists in the show, is the culture of sampling and appropriation. Like Travers, Bradford Bailey combines image and text in humorous, cartoon-inspired drawings. Jacob Dyrenforth makes photo-based, meticulously executed, graphite drawings of pixilated images drawn from subcultures of the recent past. In her large-scale works on paper, Tova Carlin combines a myriad of techniques—drawing, printing, sewing, and collage—to create a collision of material, color, and form. Molly Smith, a recent Columbia University MFA graduate, makes watercolors that are characterized by her distinctive sensibility, including her light touch and uncanny whimsy.