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MIXED GREENS GALLERY - ARTIST: Mary Temple

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Channel: NYC GALLERY OPENINGS · 2014 · Entertainment

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PAST EXHIBITION
MARY TEMPLE
TRUE ENOUGH
NOVEMBER 2014–JANUARY 2015

Mixed Greens is thrilled to present Mary Temple’s fifth solo exhibition with the gallery. For true enough, Temple debuts lush paintings on canvas and panel—text based abstractions embedded with philosophical and political phrases culled from cultural observation. Temple’s vibrant new work fills the gallery with color as each piece unfolds in layered narratives based on themes of trust, truthfulness, transparency, and doubt. 

As in the artist’s series, Light Installations (2002-Present), in which trompe l’oeil environments occupy the space between knowing and not knowing, Temple’s new work continues to implore the reevaluation of received truths. In the painting “UNKNOW, UNKNOW,” former Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld’s now notorious, made-up phrase, “the unknown known”, is sent-up. Imploring the Rumsfelds of the world to unknow, Temple’s clarion call seeks leaders who consider doubt an asset to decision making. 

In “Terrible Swift Sword,” an eviscerated, dense field of slashed pinks, at once lushly fleshy and sickly pale, makes it all but impossible to mend together the chopped eponymous phrase from “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” The beauty and repulsion evoked in this piece speak to Temple’s beliefs about “the conflicted feelings many Americans have about the necessity and implementation of this country’s recent wars.”

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