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PAVEL ZOUBOK - Don Joint, George Schneeman

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Don Joint
Coney Island Blueprints

Pavel Zoubok Gallery
531 W.26 St.
New York, NY 10011 

April 24th - May 24th, 2014
Opening:  April 24th 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM


DON JOINT's newest series continues a painterly exploration of the Carnivalesque that 
began with the 2010 exhibition Waldameer, a visual return to the artist's boyhood 
memories of the historic Pennsylvania amusement park of the same name. His 
collaged paintings build upon a lifelong fascination with amusement parks by 
structuring their seemingly abstract compositions around a collection of early 20th 
century blueprints of rides drawn from the Coney Island archives. Joint's rhythmic, 
gestural works evoke both the sensory experience of these mechanical marvels and 
the mythological fantasies of his childhood. In his introduction to the exhibition 
catalogue, poet and author Erik LaPrade writes:

In these new works, Joint combines elements of two different cultures to create his 
fantasy park: industrial and mechanical drawings of Coney Island rides, and the 
powerful, vivid colors and imagery of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints. The fantasy world of 
Joint's amusement park is the world of Ukiyo-e, the floating world. Ukiyo-e prints 
almost always present us with a visual narrative, whether actual historical stories or 
mythological tales and legends. However, in Joint's world, there is no narrative story; 
we are the narrators, and part of the fun of this park is for us to try to make sense of 
the fantasy through which we are moving. 

George Schneeman
Zig Zag Jag

For over forty years, New York artist GEORGE SCHNEEMAN painted iconic portraits of 
his family and friends both on canvas and in fresco. Concurrently, he created 
numerous collages from evocative fragments of printed ephemera, as well as little-
known collage copies, intimate paintings on panel directly quoting the collages. These 
intimately scaled works juxtapose two principle elements in what can be read as a 
form of visual poetry. Not coincidentally, Schneeman had profound ties to prominent 
poets of the second-generation New York School such as Ron Padgett, Bill Berkson, 
Ted Berrigan, Ann Waldman, Larry Fagin, Maureen Owen, Michael Brownstein, among 
others. These friendships resulted in numerous collaborations across disciplines. 
Schneeman s work reflects the enduring spirit of Pop Art and its fundamental 
connection to language, placing him squarely in the pantheon of artists such as Joe 
Brainard, Ray Johnson, Jess and others.

Running simultaneously, from April 22 to September 20, 2014, is the first major 
retrospective of George Schneeman s work, A Painter and His Poets: The Art of 
George Schneeman, at Poets House, 10 River Terrace, New York, NY 10282 as well as 
Face Value, a group exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC, 
which includes the artist s double portrait of poets Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan.


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Chill Carrier - A New Day

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