Artists Space
38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor, 212-226-3970
Soho
January 12 - February 18, 2006
Reception: Thursday, January 19, 6 - 8 PM
Web Site
Karen Gunderson’s all-black paintings of mountains in Tibet and constellations of night skies rest uneasy in various histories of painting. Monochrome and representational, they defy well rehearsed assumptions of the history of twentieth century abstraction, and engage with a broader concern for the ability of painting to represent subject matter that often remains invisible, such as concepts of essence and world history.