HOLD THE HORIZON CLOSE

MARQUEE PROJECTS is pleased to present Hold the Horizon Close, a group exhibition curated by Benjamin Tischer of New Discretions and featuring recent artworks by Paul Gabrielli, LoVid, and Agathe Snow. This is the fifth show at MARQUEE PROJECTS to feature a guest curator, in a continued effort to bring new ideas and artists to the gallery as well as build relationships with curators and audiences outside of Bellport.

A reception for the artists will be held on Saturday, October 24, from 3 pm to 7 pm.

From the curator:

Together, we live in landscapes. The sun rises. The sunsets on all. There is forever a future in the distance. The horizon still divides earth from sky, pasts from possibilities.  With this universal truth recognized, Hold the Horizon Close shares the work of two artists and one collective, all expanding on the sincerity of landscape.

Paul Gabrielli has made a career of creating trompe l’oeil sculptures, each composed of “everyday objects” which are themselves a combination of altered, manipulated, and meticulously handmade elements. Recent work has focused on shelves: used and worn, household, kitchen, garage. These humble forms serve as both domestic signifiers and literal horizons. His most recent additions to the series introduce “packaging” painted as ombré backdrops for these sculptures—a faux hanging device—invoking first light.

Though LoVid are known for employing analog electronic feedback as the source of their visual output, this snared energy often takes physical form, and they are increasingly embedding nature into their signal. Presented here are continuations of their “paintings,” melding terrain and technology through craft: lush hyperspaces which offer both confusion and comfort. Also present are abstract works on paper taken straight from the voltaic realm, making solid the bandwidths in which we live.

Breaking from her well-established sculpture and performance practices, Agathe Snow presents a series of intimate paintings, Layers between Earth and Sky, which she began during a residency at the Elaine de Kooning House. Confident, simple gestures on board trace the seasons. Two collages on paper (handmade by Snow) also provide a more chaotic celebration of color and line.

The horizon remains throughout. 

Paul Gabrielli (b. 1982, Long Island) is a New York-based artist whose work has been exhibited in institutions and galleries both internationally and domestically, including Unpaved Gallery, Yucca Valley; NADA House, New York; the Cartier Foundation, Paris; 303 Gallery, New York; Eleven Rivington, New York; and The Verge Gallery, Sacramento. His work is included in the permanent collection of the Cartier Foundation. His work has been featured in Artnet, ArtForum, The Paris Review, Art Review, Mousse Magazine, City Arts, amongst others.

LoVid, the Long Island-based artist duo comprised of Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus, LoVid's work includes immersive installations, sculptural synthesizers, single channel videos, tapestries, stained glass, participatory projects, mobile media cinema, works on paper, and multimedia performance. Collaborating since 2001, LoVid’s work has been exhibited, performed, screened, and presented internationally among others at SPRING/BREAK Art Show, And/Or Gallery, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Real Art Ways, Good Children Gallery, BRIC, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Parrish Museum, Issue Project Room, Mixed Greens Gallery, The Science Gallery Dublin, The Jewish Museum, MoMA, Lampo (Chicago), Tectonics Festival TLV, The Kitchen, Moving Image Art Fair, Daejeon Museum (Korea), Smack Mellon, Netherland Media Art Institute (Netherlands), New Museum (NY), ICA (London), and International Film Festival Rotterdam (Netherlands). LoVid’s projects have received support from organizations including: Wave Hill, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Graham Foundation, UC Santa Barbara, Signal Culture, Cue Art Foundation, Eyebeam, Harvestworks, Wave Farm, Rhizome, Franklin Furnace, Turbulence.org, New York Foundation for the Arts, Lower Manhattan Cultural Center, Experimental TV Center, NY State Council of the Arts, and Greenwall Foundation. 

Agathe Snow (b. 1976, Corsica, France) lives and works in Long Island, NY. She has shown nationally at the New Museum, New York, NY; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. Snow has also achieved international recognition, exhibiting at several prestigious institutions, such as Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany; Jeu de Paume, Paris, France; Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France; and Saatchi Gallery, London, UK. Snow’s work is included in the permanent collection of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; the Charles Saatchi Collection, London, UK; the Zabludowitz Collection; and in the Dikeou Collection, Denver, CO.

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New Discretions is a curatorial and art advisory project by Benjamin Tischer of INVISIBLE-EXPORTS. For more information, contact: benjamin@newdiscretions.com

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