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Eli Langer

New Paintings

Nov 1-24, 2001

Eli Langer's recent paintings offer fictive images of discontinuous and nonlinear narration which lay bare the bias of perception. These self-sourced works are low resolution diagrams of locations and people which seem relieved of physical density and whose floating light describes not implausible instances of awareness in the artist's life. The images are both improvised and reconfigured in retrospect with confluent motifs emerging in real time. Many of these works were painted on small pieces of wallboard lovingly removed in sections from rooms in New Orleans' now defunct Audubon Hotel while the artist was a resident. The works are painted in bright and flatly applied colours whose weightless countenances engage viewers in a process of negotiating their own boundaries of cognizance, awareness and recollection.