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Susan Crile, Recent History

Michael Steinberg Fine Art
526 West 26th Street, Suite 215, 212-924-5770
Chelsea
October 19 - November 14, 2006
Reception: Thursday, October 19, 6 - 8 PM
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Drawn from two bodies of work, The Fires of War (1992-1993), and 9/11(2002), this exhibition is a poignant and provocative visualization of two relatively recent events that continue to resonate in current political and environmental crises.

In 1991, Susan Crile drove through the burning oil fields of Kuwait, to experience and photograph the eco-terrorism inflicted on the country by Saddam Hussein’s retreating army. Returning to her New York studio, Crile transformed the photographs she had taken into paintings in which, according to Elizabeth Strick, she “documents the violations of nature but is equally drawn by the demonic beauty of the fires themselves.”

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