You And Other Unknowing Subjects

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Dates

Nov 13 – Dec 20, 2008

Location

513 West 20th Street New York, NY 10011

Artists

Geoffrey Chadsey

Press Release

GEOFFREY CHADSEY

You, and Other Unknowing Subjects

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 13th, 6-8pm

Chadsey’s characters and resulting tableaus are hybrids between stereotypically incongruent worlds: drunken college dudes, preening boys, parents, gay men, the anonymous morphed with celebrity culture, the cartoonish, the prurient and the vulnerable…“It's a drunk miscegenating queer world, filled with hostile effeminacy, macho posturing and preening, celebration, pleasure, and alienation-- a world that is born from a break in belonging.”

Chadsey is an excellent draftsman and his works are firmly situated in a long tradition of drawing and portraiture in art history.Works call to mind classical renaissance portraits and futurist painting, contemporary artists with whom his work has an affinity include Nan Golden, Elizabeth Peyton, and Wolfgang Tilmans.

For further information and press photography please contact Jack Shainman Gallery at info@jackshainman.com.