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Unrequited Love : Curated by Vera Iliatova and Sarah Peters featuring artists: Ann Agee, Inna Babaeva, Nina Childress, Jennifer Paige Cohen, Jenny Dubnau, Dana Frankfort, Louis Fratino, Rema Ghuloum, Ryan Johnson, Alex Jackson, Dennis Kardon, Craig Kucia, Julia Kun

Past exhibition
21 June - 28 July 2023
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Anne Agee, Raised Curtain Madonna, 2020
Anne Agee, Raised Curtain Madonna, 2020
Nathalie Karg Gallery is pleased to present Unrequited Love, curated by Vera Iliatova and Sarah Peters. On view from June 21st to July 20th, 2023, the exhibition features work by Ann Agee, Inna Babaeva, Nina Childress, Jennifer Paige Cohen, Jenny Dubnau, Dana Frankfort, Louis Fratino, Rema Ghuloum, Ryan Johnson, Alex Jackson, Dennis Kardon, Craig Kucia, Julia Kunin, Susan Lichtman, Jennifer Macdonald, Shari Mendelson, Ohad Meromi, John Newman, Keiko Narahashi, Enrico Riley, Elsa Sahal, Matt Saunders, Michelle Segre, Jeremy Stenger, Alessandro Teoldi, Hannah van Bart, Jenna Westra, and Alan Wiener.
 
In this exhibition, one’s “unrequited love” stands as a metaphor for the artists’ yearning to grasp at something in their work that remains forever outside of their reach. This longing, desire, and tension remain present in the physical objects that are the results of individual pursuit. Each of the artists in this exhibition value the sense of touch and the physical tension in making their works, embedding them with an emotion that eludes being captured with words. The process in the studio becomes a love song between the makers and the objects that they make. Desire, dreaming, wanting, release, disappointment, revenge, confusion, and the possibility of satisfaction are the churning emotions that spur artists to make new artworks. We also look back at past artworks, our old lovers, to understand and find the new ones. This exhibition presents narrative manifestations of “unrequited love” through the stages of complicated afairs and their aftermath.
 
In a sculpture by Julia Kunin and paintings by Dana Frankfort, Rema Ghuloum, and Enrico Riley, emotional yearning and reverie are evoked through the luminosity of color, translucent veils of paint, and atmospheric structures. Carefully constructed grids within works by Alex Jackson and Alan Wiener create expansive visions and Michelle Segre’s celestial structure opens our eyes towards ecstatic space while Jenny Dubnau and Jeremy Stenger invent entire emotional universes from the petals of a flower.
 
Nina Childress and Matt Saunders’ works idolize the unattainable object of desire and from Inna Babaeva, Louis Fratino, Dennis Kardon, John Newman, Elsa Sahal, and Alessandro Teoldi, we see works that express bodily intimacy and sexual appetite.
 
Hindsight, longing, memory, absence, and possible regret are present in the family drama found in Susan Lichtman’s large scale painting of a dinner table and Ann Agee’s porcelain sculpture depicts a madonna figure encountering a void. Craig Kucia invokes the memory of his grandmother by painting images based on their conversations. Physical tension in a space between two people is found in Jenna Westra’s photographs while in Keiko Narahashi’s sculpture, such tension defines itself within the boundaries of a single body.
 
When the artwork is completed, the love afair ends. The artist is alone in their studio and must start again. The fictional protagonist is a lonely wanderer embodied in the sculptures of Ryan Johnson, Shari Mendelson, and Ohad Meromi, with each traveler accompanied by a mysterious animal companion.
 
The introspective smile in the portrait by Hannah van Bart and the courageous step forward in the sculpted figure by Jennifer Paige Cohen project quiet but assertive power to encounter the future.
 
In the end, one could see Jennifer Macdonald’s bronzes as the required armor and fearlessness needed to begin again.
 
– Vera Iliatova and Sarah Peters
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Works
  • Anne Agee, RAISED CURTAIN MADONNA, 2020

    Anne Agee, RAISED CURTAIN MADONNA, 2020

  • Shari Mendelson, BULL RIDING IN STRIPED V-NECK, 2023
    Shari Mendelson, BULL RIDING IN STRIPED V-NECK, 2023
  • Keiko Narahashi, THE SHADOWS ARE THE BODY, 2019

    Keiko Narahashi, THE SHADOWS ARE THE BODY, 2019

  • Rema Ghulom, IN BREATH, 2023

    Rema Ghulom, IN BREATH,  2023

  • Rema Ghulom, THE SUNRISE IN YOUR EYES, 2023

    Rema Ghulom, THE SUNRISE IN YOUR EYES, 2023

  • Susan Lichtman, THE FAMILY AFTER A MEAL, 2023

    Susan Lichtman, THE FAMILY AFTER A MEAL, 2023

  • Susan Lichtman, SPLATTERWARE PLATTER, 2023

    Susan Lichtman, SPLATTERWARE PLATTER, 2023

  • Enrico Riley, TOGETHER, YELLOW AND BROWN, 2022

    Enrico Riley, TOGETHER, YELLOW AND BROWN, 2022

     

  • Jennifer Paige Cohen, UNTITLED, 2022

    Jennifer Paige Cohen, UNTITLED, 2022

  • Jenny Dubnau, RD ARMS AT SIDE, 2014

    Jenny Dubnau, RD ARMS AT SIDE, 2014

  • Jennny Dubnau, PINK FLOWERS, 2016

    Jennny Dubnau, PINK FLOWERS, 2016

  • Inna Babaeva, TOO TIRED TO WAIT, 2022

    Inna Babaeva, TOO TIRED TO WAIT, 2022

  • Dana Frankfort, AMORE FATI, 2023

    Dana Frankfort, AMORE FATI, 2023

  • Dana Frankfort, JERK, 2023

    Dana Frankfort, JERK, 2023

     

  • Ryan Johnson, ANOTHER THOUGHT, 2021

    Ryan Johnson, ANOTHER THOUGHT, 2021

  • Dennis Kardon, THE END OF THE STORY, 2000

    Dennis Kardon, THE END OF THE STORY, 2000

  • Dennis Kardon,THE UNINVTIED, 2016

    Dennis Kardon,THE UNINVTIED, 2016

  • Alex Jackson, PHANTOM GATE NO. 1, 2023

    Alex Jackson, PHANTOM GATE NO. 1, 2023

  • Julia Kunin, ULTRA GREEN PAVILION, 2022

    Julia Kunin, ULTRA GREEN PAVILION, 2022 

  • Hannah van Bart, YOUNG WOMAN, 2013

    Hannah van Bart, YOUNG WOMAN, 2013

  • Alan Wiener, UNTITLED, 2009

    Alan Wiener, UNTITLED, 2009

  • Nina Childress, PINK LINDA, 2021

    Nina Childress, PINK LINDA, 2021

  • Louis Fratino, TORSO, 2022

    Louis Fratino, TORSO, 2022

  • Louis Fratino, TERRA-COTTA FIGURINE, 2022

    Louis Fratino, TERRA-COTTA FIGURINE, 2022

  • Jennifer Macdonald, HIGH, 2023

    Jennifer Macdonald, HIGH, 2023

  • Jennifer Macdonald, CRIME, 2021-2022

    Jennifer Macdonald, CRIME, 2021-2022

  • Jennifer Macdonald, CACTUS FLOWER, 2021-2022

    Jennifer Macdonald, CACTUS FLOWER, 2021-2022

  • Jenna Westra, LEGS AND WATER GLASS 3, 2019

    Jenna Westra, LEGS AND WATER GLASS 3, 2019

  • Jenna Westra, Legs and Water Glass 2, 2019

    Jenna Westra, Legs and Water Glass 2, 2019

  • Jeremy Stenger, UNTITLED, 2019

    Jeremy Stenger, UNTITLED, 2019

  • John Newman, SPOONFULLS, 2014

    John Newman, SPOONFULLS, 2014

  • Alessandro Teoldi, UNTITLED (HAWAIIAN AIRLINES, CONTINENTAL, AIR FRANCE, AND EMIRATES), 2022

    Alessandro Teoldi, UNTITLED (HAWAIIAN AIRLINES, CONTINENTAL, AIR FRANCE, AND EMIRATES), 2022

  • Ohad Meromi, LIONESS, 2021

    Ohad Meromi, LIONESS, 2021

  • OHAD MEROMI, CRUTCH, 2023

    OHAD MEROMI, CRUTCH, 2023

  • Matt Saunders, RED DESERT #3, 2015

    Matt Saunders, RED DESERT #3, 2015

  • Michelle Segre, A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER DAY, 2023

    Michelle Segre, A DAY LIKE ANY OTHER DAY, 2023

  • CRAIG KUCIA, UNTITLED (WHALE, JUNE NIGHT SKY), 2023

    CRAIG KUCIA, UNTITLED (WHALE, JUNE NIGHT SKY), 2023

  • CRAIG KUCIA, IN THE JUNE NIGHT, 2023

    CRAIG KUCIA, IN THE JUNE NIGHT, 2023

  • Elsa Sahal, DÉSIRÉE, 2022

    Elsa Sahal, DÉSIRÉE, 2022

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Publications
  • Unrequited Love

    Unrequited Love

    A group show curated by Vera Iliatova and Sarah Peters 2023
    Paper 34 pages
    Publisher: Nathalie Karg Gallery
    Dimensions: 8 x 5 1/2 in
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