a group exhibition presenting works by New York-based artists of Hungarian origin curated by Agnes Berecz

Agnes Denes * George Peck * Sylvia Plachy * Mónika Sziládi * Tamás Vészi

The first installment of a two-part group exhibition, Random Utterness presents works by New York-based artists of Hungarian origin. The exhibition brings together established and emerging artists using a wide range of media. The X-ray-based works of Agnes Denes, the projected paintings of George Peck, and the gestural works on paper of Tamás Vészi (bridging printmaking with the radiographic image, and painting with video projection or drawing) investigate how images can be translated and reconfigured from one medium to another. The photographs of Sylvia Plachy and Mónika Sziládi explore places and people, transforming urban life into fragmented landscapes and people into frozen, still-life objects.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Agnes Denes is one of the early pioneers of the environmental art movement and conceptual art. Interested in mathematics, philosophy, linguistics, poetry and music, Denes has addressed ecological, cultural and social issues in her work on an often monumental scale. Her drawings, prints, books, performances, earthworks and photo-based projects has been featured at more than 350 solo and group exhibitions at such venu es as the Cornell University, the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum in New York, as well as at the Venice Biennale and Documenta. A research fellow at the Studio for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University; the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at M.I.T.; and DAAD in Berlin, Denes has lectured extensively at universities in the US and abroad. The author of numerous books, she holds an honorary doctorate in fine arts, and has completed commissions in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, and the Middle East. She is also the recipient of numerous awards, including four National Endowment Fellowships, the McDermott Award from M.I.T.; the Watson Award from Carnegie Mellon U.; and the Rome Prize, from the American Academy in Rome in 1998. Denes lives and works in New York.

George Peck was born in Hungary and emigrated from Budapest in 1957. He studied at the City College in N ew York, and from 1964 to 1966, with Josef Albers at the Yale University. His work comprises of monochromes, a series of muslin-based and stenciled paintings, murals, as well as monumental, freestanding diaphanous works. Since the early 2000s, he has been working with video exploring both histories of Western painting and current political and social conditions. His recent Projected Paintings use laboriously constructed, polymorphous sculptural screens and projected images in simultaneous, double projection. Peck has been regularly exhibiting his work since 1964. His paintings are represented in numerous public collections in both Europe and the US. He lives and works in New York and Buskirk, NY. www.georgepeck.net