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For Frieze Viewing Room: New York Edition, Luhring Augustine presents a selection of works by four artists, Christina Forrer, Tom Friedman, Sanya Kantarovsky, and Emo Verkerk, who through a variety of mediums share a focus on figuration. As this unprecedented moment finds us newly estranged from the company of others, this emphasis on the figure reaffirms the significance of presence in a time defined by distance.
While we increasingly occupy online worlds, artworks centering the human body ground us in the reality of our physical, corporeal condition while celebrating our shared humanity. Including works created by Forrer, Friedman, Kantarovsky, and Verkerk, this collection of paintings, drawings, sculptures, prints, and tapestries is populated by the figures, both real and imagined, who inhabit their worlds.
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Christina Forrer
Animated by an interest in fables and folklore, Christina Forrer’s vibrant weavings explore the depths of human emotion. While many of her works showcase dramatic moments of explosive conflict, the grouping presented here focuses on more private anxieties and internal tensions. These weavings and watercolors showcase Forrer’s signature representational style, featuring fantastical characters with cartoonish features rendered with a keen attention to boldness of color and richness of pattern.
Photo by Scott Rodd
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Tom Friedman
Tom Friedman is widely known for his intricately constructed objects that challenge and stimulate perception and reward close viewing. His works’ carefully cultivated appearance of industrial fabrication belies a painstaking handcrafted process. On view here are two new sculptures that employ all-over dot patterning to enhance their visual effect and increase their surrealist impact.
Photo by Justin Kemp
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Sanya Kantarovsky
Sanya Kantarovsky is represented by a group of new watercolors and recent woodblock prints. The intimately-scaled watercolors on paper were made by Kantarovsky over the past two months. The exceptional woodblock prints on washi paper were made in collaboration with The Adachi Institute of Woodcut Prints in Tokyo.
Photo by Josh Olins
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Emo Verkerk
For more than 30 years, Dutch painter Emo Verkerk has created an extensive body of work in portraiture, picturing a wide array of well-known figures with whom he shares a strong affinity. Given this deep identification with his subjects, the works operate as surrogate self-portraits. This presentation includes a selection of honest, yet idiosyncratic bust length portraits of famous contributors to politics, literature, and society from throughout Western civilization, including poet Edgar Allen Poe, President Abraham Lincoln, and Lakota Elder Wallace Black Elk, among others.
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Checklist
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Christina Forrer, Intervision, 2020
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Christina Forrer, Couple (Alpine), 2018
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Christina Forrer, Double Eyes, 2019
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Christina Forrer, Lions, 2020$ 12,500.00
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Christina Forrer, Wolf, 2019
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Christina Forrer, Untitled (study for Intervision), 2019
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Christina Forrer, Woman (with eyes open), 2018
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Tom Friedman, Hazmat Love, 2017
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Tom Friedman, DogHouse, 2020
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Tom Friedman, Sleeping Figure, 2020
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Sanya Kantarovsky, Cataract, 2019
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Sanya Kantarovsky, Curtain, 2019
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Sanya Kantarovsky, Good Host, 2019
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Sanya Kantarovsky, Woe to Wit, 2019
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Sanya Kantarovsky, Altissimo, 2020
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Sanya Kantarovsky, Forever Empty, 2020
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Sanya Kantarovsky, Good Girl, 2020
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Sanya Kantarovsky, Pushkin, 2020
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Sanya Kantarovsky, This is Goodbye, 2020
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Sanya Kantarovsky, Man Balloon, 2020
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Emo Verkerk, Abraham Lincoln, 2019
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Emo Verkerk, Blaise Pascal, 2019
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Emo Verkerk, Blaise Pascal, 1999
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Emo Verkerk, Commander Johannes Frans van Dulm, 2012
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