October 06, 2007—November 03, 2007 76 Grand Street, New York

Pictures Last Longer, an exhibition of new paintings by Micah Ganske opens Saturday, October 6th at Deitch Projects.

“The paintings of Micah Ganske are powerfully ambiguous. Ganske’s work can be seen as optimistically pessimistic, cynically sincere, or epically banal. Micah Ganske’s work feels true to the complex world we live in where nothing is absolute, and where few problems are solved without moral compromise.

The technique and process that Ganske has developed is possibly just as elusive as his subject matter. Seven years ago he gave up stretching and priming his surfaces and has since been perfecting a method of stain painting that is unlike anything being done in the art world today. The method of paint application can be so invisible that his brush-applied, acrylic on muslin paintings are often initially mistaken as ink-jet prints. The precision and complexity of his process comes at the price of huge time commitments. Larger pieces can take him upwards of four to five months to complete.”

-Colette Robbins