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Nincompatibles
The Bowman/Bloom gallery is pleased to present “Nincompatibles,” a show of three artists from the Lower East Side. Brigitte Engler, Richard Hell and Walter Robinson share an open-minded approach and an absence of agenda in this brilliant no-concept exhibition. The show will open on November 4th and runs through December 14, in the subterranean space at 95 E.7th Street in New York City.
Brigitte Engler’s work has been shown in New York, Los Angeles, Italy and Germany. She has also been published in magazines and books in collaborations with French philosopher/writer Sylvere Lotringer. Engler moved from Paris in 1980 to study at the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. She has written about art in French and American publications like Paper magazine.
Engler’s work revolves around paradoxes within a singular form. The anachronic works presented in this show make reference to printmaking either in the hand-painted gouaches of an illustration from the 1880s, a wood-engraving depicting a crowd, or in the new series of rubbings of images found on the city’s sidewalks. “These pieces tell us as much about the presence of an absence as the absence of a presence,” says the artist of her decorative-historical works.
Richard Hell, New York punk prince, has been making art all his life. Half the visual tropes associated with punk were conceived by him. He had a solo show at the Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery in 1998, collaborated in 2008 with Christopher Wool on a book and associated series of drawings and prints titled Psychopts, and was featured this year in “Looking at Music: Side 2” at the Museum of Modern Art. To “Nincompatibles,” Richard contributes works on paper in gouache, casein, pencils, charcoal, and laser printer. Besides his visual work, Hell is the author of two novels, Go Now (1996) and Godlike (2005), as well as several other books. His music CDs include Blank Generation (1977), Dim Stars (1992), Spurts (2005), and Destiny Street Repaired (2009).
Walter Robinson had his first solo show at Metro Pictures gallery in 1980 and subsequently exhibited his paintings in the East Village, London, Rome and Switzerland. In regard to his “Romance Paintings” from the 1980s, the art critic Ana Finel Honigman has remarked upon their “punchy palette and frenzied brushstrokes, an overheated esthetic that pops with naked, raw fantasy allure.”
Robinson’s most recent show was at Metro Pictures in 2008, and he was also included in “Naked” at Paul Kasmin Gallery this summer. His 1978 music video for the Suicide song Frankie Teardrop is included in MoMA’s “Looking at Music: Side 2.” He is currently editor of Artnet Magazine. In “Nincompatibles,” Walter is showing still lifes (Guinness Stout, Red Bull and Grey Goose, and the triptych, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner), portraits (Aurora Snow, Paint Thick Like Pancake Makeup and Nude Licking Her Fingers), nudes (Oops and Lots of Mascara), and other works. |
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