SCHEMA : International Artists at Daniel Cooney Fine Art

Thursday, 15 June 2006 11:28

New York City - Gallery artist Carrie Levy has compiled a group of international artists to present SCHEMA, an exhibition of photography, video and drawings with the common theme of representation and appropriation.  Included in the exhibition are Adam Humphries’ digital prints of manipulated comic book landscapes; Suzanne Mooney’s diagrammatic images based on photographic instruction manuals; Michael Van Horne’s images of pornographic pictures tossed in the air and photographed mid flight and a beautifully intricate drawing by Michael Whittle.

Perhaps the most disturbing example of representation is Mark Mangion’s video, Fly on Young Girl.  In the 12-minute video a nude, seemingly lifeless young woman lies on a metal table in a sterile interior while the video camera circles and scans her body.  The video reveals the woman’s body to be tattooed, pierced and marked with the evidence of a violent encounter.  The work pushes the boundaries between art, representation and invasion of privacy.

Another video addressing representation is Paulina Egle Pukyte & Minna Haukka’s New Girl in Town.  The video shows a series of handmade advertisement posters made by prostitutes working in the illegal brothels Soho, London.  The posters are meant to attract business but reveal an ironic innocence that stands in stark contrast to the business at hand.

This exhibition will be the New York debut of all (but one) of the participating artists in addition to Levy’s first curatorial accomplishment.  Featuring: Adam Humphries (UK), Mark Mangion (Malta), Suzanne Mooney (Ireland), Paulina Egle Pukyte (Lithuania) & Minna Haukka (Finland), Michael Van Horne (US), Michael Whittle (UK).