Jeff Bailey Gallery is pleased to present There's Got To Be A Morning After, featuring drawings by David Colosi, sculpture by David McMurray and paintings by Christopher Reiger.
The works of Colosi, McMurray and Reiger suggest that the world is a mess, and ask the question, "so what's next"?
David Colosi's graphite drawings lean toward the comic, but leave laughter waiting at the door. They are expressions of responses to the American social and political climate. Recent events are depicted in a swirl of nervous activity. Humans, animals and machines morph into creatures that flit about, flying through, into and out of the jumbled world they inhabit. In Colosi's drawings, there's no looking for escape in this absurd world, just a way to deal with it.
David McMurray's sculptures of stacked heads imply how we are all linked: if not through family and relationships, then by the anonymous ebb and flow of daily life. The human population continues to grow, but the world stays the same size. Young or old, little or big, living next door to each other or on opposite sides of the planet - it seems like no matter where we go, we're practically on top of each other, and still growing.
Christopher Reiger's paintings reveal nature run amok. Animals and insects jump, hurl and buzz, recombining, mutating and starting all over again. In a world where computer generated special effects increasingly assert their own reality, the creatures in Reiger's paintings playfully remind us that even in a virtual world, the real thing is still right around the corner, and probably getting bigger.
So, perhaps we all stumble through a too fast world, cycling through euphoria and depression, watching what just happened on TV, and hoping that, somehow, there's got to be a morning after.
David Colosi's drawings will be featured in Laughing Blood: Collected Poems of David Colosi, 1987-2002, being published in fall 2003 by Left Hand Books. David McMurray's work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions in New York. Christopher Reiger received his MFA from the School of the Visual Arts, New York, in 2002.
Jeff Bailey Gallery is located at 511 West 25th Street, No. 808, between 10th and 11th Avenues. Summer gallery hours are Monday through Friday from 11-6 (closed July 4th and 5th). For further information and images, please contact the gallery.