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ARTCAT



Amy Kao, Heavenly Tedious

Michael Steinberg Fine Art
526 West 26th Street, Suite 215, 212-924-5770
Chelsea
April 26 - May 25, 2007
Reception: Wednesday, April 25, 6 - 8 PM
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Heavenly Tedious is a site-specific installation which draws its title and formal inspiration from a Schubert sonata, the work invites the viewer into a panoply of interwoven arabesques. Cut from sheets of rubber, overlapping and intersecting motifs are derived from a diverse range of urban images – ornamental flora and fauna; camouflage; graffiti. Hovering on a threshold between memory and fantasy, the musical sense of theme and variation allow the artist to transform the space into a sort of visual cacophony of cultural narratives. The tension between light and dark, visible and invisible, further activate the installation, a visual embodiment of sound and silence.

Alongside the installation, Kao will present Liminal #1, 2, and 3, a suite of prints created in 2006 when Kao was awarded a Special Editions Fellowship at the Lower East Side Printshop. Like the installation, the prints draw on graffiti and architectural embellishment to create the metaphor of an urban second skin – the ghost-like image of a no longer existing original.

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