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Larissa Goldston Gallery is pleased to present Dean Street, the gallery's third solo exhibition of paintings by Erica Svec. The exhibition will be on view from Friday, September 10 through Saturday, October 23, 2010. There will be an opening reception for the artist on Friday, September 10 from 6 to 8 pm.Included in this exhibition are six large-scale paintings that draw inspiration directly from Svec’s environment. Influenced by the detritus found in her Brooklyn neighborhood, Svec finds hidden beauty in the sidewalk trash, litter, graffiti, and spilled paint and tar that she encounters in her everyday life. Intrigued by the residual human energy retained by discarded items, Svec collects things cast off by others and reassembles them into small still lifes which she uses as the basis for larger painted compositions. The humanness of these objects is articulated both literally and metaphorically in her paintings as figurative shapes are expressed or implied by elaborate collections of items.
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