Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Negative Joy
February 3 - March 17, 2012
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Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Necessary Convolutions
2007-11
oil, enamel, spray paint, plexiglass on cut canvas
36 x 32 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Sweat of Gold
2008-11
oil, spray paint on canvas
36 x 24 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Bathysphere2011
mixed media on canvas
16 x 20 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
X,Y,Z and per se and
2009-11
oil, collage and artists frame on panel
16 x 12 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Extending
2009 - 11
oil, shells, tile grout, latex and collage on canvas
14 x 11 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Balancing my Mixed Metaphors2011
spray paint and acrylic on linen
24 x 20 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Foraging
2010-11
oil, spray paint, crab on canvas
10 x 8 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Vessel-Kink
2011
tracing paper, enamel, graphite, collage and tacks
on rear of canvas
20 x 16 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
What’s in the front, whose in the back
2011
oil, enamel, glitter, detritus, & cut painted canvas
Left: 9 x 10 inches; Right: 15 x 12 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Bird & Bird (Broad advisory, transactional and contentious capability)
2011
oil, spray paint and painted leather
connecting two paintings
Left painting: 15 x 13 inches; Right painting: 15 x 12 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Hard and Soft Nipples
2011
oil, latex, collage, thumbtacks, staples, inlaid wood on canvas
16 x 14 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Living things move toward the edge of chaos
2011
oil, spray paint, trash on linen
18 x 14 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Copy, Cut and Paste
2010
oil, sand, grout, polyurethane, trash on cut linen
24 x 18 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
That one thing follows another accounts for nothing
2006-10
latex, watch and collage on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Venomous, with four pairs of arms2008-11
oil, collage, glitter, and wire on panel
19 x 23 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Tank2011
oil, acrylic, spray paint, Plexiglas, and wood on panel
15 x 11 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Ulcerous gnawing as a reaction to one’s embeddedness2009-11
oil, enamel, leather, collage with artists frame on canvas
18 x 14 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Rectilinear Cephalopod Sampler2009-11
oil and collage on linen
20 x 16 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Every one of us2011
oil on linen
16 x 14 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Get in My Belly2011
oil, marker and cold wax on canvas
18 x 14 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Components of living systems self-organize2011
oil, enamel, collage, spray paint on canvas
19 x 15 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Equilibrium is a precursor to death2005-11
oil, enamel, silver tape, velvet on canvas
24 x 24 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
http://www.hotelhome.com.au/HotelHomeWWW/bedspread/DesignSummary.php?bedspreadid=52010
acrylic, oil, spray paint, enamel, and gravel on cut canvas
24 x 20 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Homecoming Mud Puddle2011
oil, grout, graphite on linen
15 x 12 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Anti-Expeditious
2011
oil, acrylic, spray paint, card board, various objects
90 x 130 inches
Press Release
It is with great pleasure that Corbett vs. Dempsey presents Negative Joy , a show of new work by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung. In her Corbett vs. Dempsey debut, Zuckerman-Hartung continues a deeply inquisitive exploration of painting as a primary practice, investigating its material raptures, intellectual speed-bumps, and conceptual limits. Zuckerman-Hartung, who was raised in Olympia, Washington, and now lives and teaches in Chicago, simultaneously has an adoring relationship with paint – its gooey, viscous, repulsive, sexy physicality – and is also instinctively skeptical of its fetishistic power. Working abstractly, in relatively small scale, she reaches into a deep trick-bag, pouring, spraying, incising, collaging, assemblaging, linking, amputating, and otherwise thoroughly working and reworking her canvases. An earlier interest in modernist geometry has been subsumed in a much wider array of effects, blasting open cubist facets and placing them in an explosive array of textures, colors, and even images.
Ferociously original and intent on maintaining a permanent personal revolution, Zuckerman-Hartung has rapidly become one of the most visible artists of her generation to emerge in Chicago. Recent exhibitions have included Anna Kustera Gallery (New York) and Spazio Cabinet (Milan), and in upcoming months she will be featured in one-person exhibitions at Jacky Strenz (Frankfurt) in March, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) in May.
Negative Joy is accompanied by a 44-page catalog featuring full-color reproductions of the paintings and a conversation between John Corbett and Zuckerman-Hartung.