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Yankee RosePresented by Sara Meltzer Gallery January 11, 2008- February 9, 2008Reception: January 11, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pmRoger AnderssonIn the upstairs gallery we are pleased to present Yankee Rose, a series of new works by Roger Andersson. This body of works on paper continues the artist’s meticulous renderings of various species of flora that reference a number of historical practices including illuminated manuscripts, Victorian botanical drawings and story book illustrations. Similar to his previous body of work, Letters from Mayhem (2003), which was also produced as a book edition in conjunction with Cabinet Magazine, Andersson depicts, in painstaking detail, small figures dwarfed and hidden within jungles of unruly, twisting roots. However, the artist has abandoned his monochromic, Delft blue palette for more natural murky earth tones. Edgar Orlaineta lives and works in Mexico City. He received an MFA in Sculpture at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY and a BFA in Painting at Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultara y Grabado, “La Esmeralda,” Mexico City, Mexico. His work has been exhibited in venues internationally including La Fundació Espais de'art Contemporani, Barcelona and Centro de Arte de la Comunidad de Madrid, Spain; MuseumQuartier, Vienna, Austria; Instituto de México en Paris, Paris, France; The Santiago Biennial, Santiago, Chile (2003); The Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, New Jersey and in New York at Sculpture Center, Long Island City; Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn and Cuchifritos Art Gallery/Project Space. In Mexico City he has exhibited at Museo Carrillo Gil; Galería de Arte Mexicano; Museo Univercitario de Ciencias y Arte, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and Art & Idea, among others. Orlaineta's work is included in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., where his work was recently exhibited. Roger Andersson lives and works in Stockholm, Sweden. His work has been exhibited internationally including exhibitions at Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; Västerås Konstmuseum, Sweden; University Art Museum, University of Albany, Albany, NY; Skulpturens hus, Stocklhom, Sweden; Bohusläns Museum, Uddevalla, Sweden; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; The Modern Museum of Stockholm; The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI and many others
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