January 9 – February 10, 2007 “One Picture and the Next Three” New Paintings
526 West 26 Street #1019
New York NY 10001
Tel: 212 399 2636
Fax: 212 399 2684 info@alexandergray.com Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00 AM - 6:00 PM In One Picture and the Next Three Lawrence Gipe re-represents four archival photographic images as oil paintings, continuing his strategy of severing historical images from their original, politically-charged contexts. The "Next Three” paintings are sourced from a compilation of photographs by David Douglas Duncan called Yankee Nomad. Famous for his association of Picasso in the 50’s, Duncan’s lesser-known journalistic corpus for LIFE from 1945-9 was a sweeping document of Europe, the Middle East and Indonesia in transition just after World War Two; in the narrative sections of Yankee Nomad, Duncan casts himself as a jaunty American witnessing the final gasps of the old British and French colonial powers dissolving while the United States simultaneously prepares to step into the role of dominant world power. |
