Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Necessary Convolutions 2007-11 oil, enamel, spray paint, plexiglass on cut canvas 36 x 32 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Sweat of Gold
2008-11
oil, spray paint on canvas
36 x 24 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Bathysphere 2011 mixed media on canvas 16 x 20 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
X,Y,Z and per se and
2009-11
oil, collage and artists frame on panel
16 x 12 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Extending
2009 - 11
oil, shells, tile grout, latex and collage on canvas
14 x 11 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Balancing my Mixed Metaphors 2011 spray paint and acrylic on linen 24 x 20 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Foraging
2010-11
oil, spray paint, crab on canvas
10 x 8 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Vessel-Kink
2011
tracing paper, enamel, graphite, collage and tacks
on rear of canvas
20 x 16 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
What’s in the front, whose in the back
2011
oil, enamel, glitter, detritus, & cut painted canvas
Left: 9 x 10 inches; Right: 15 x 12 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Bird & Bird (Broad advisory, transactional and contentious capability)
2011
oil, spray paint and painted leather
connecting two paintings
Left painting: 15 x 13 inches; Right painting: 15 x 12 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Hard and Soft Nipples
2011
oil, latex, collage, thumbtacks, staples, inlaid wood on canvas
16 x 14 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Living things move toward the edge of chaos
2011
oil, spray paint, trash on linen
18 x 14 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Copy, Cut and Paste
2010
oil, sand, grout, polyurethane, trash on cut linen
24 x 18 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
That one thing follows another accounts for nothing
2006-10
latex, watch and collage on canvas
24 x 18 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Venomous, with four pairs of arms 2008-11 oil, collage, glitter, and wire on panel 19 x 23 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Tank 2011 oil, acrylic, spray paint, Plexiglas, and wood on panel 15 x 11 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Ulcerous gnawing as a reaction to one’s embeddedness 2009-11 oil, enamel, leather, collage with artists frame on canvas 18 x 14 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Rectilinear Cephalopod Sampler 2009-11 oil and collage on linen 20 x 16 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Every one of us 2011 oil on linen 16 x 14 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Get in My Belly 2011 oil, marker and cold wax on canvas 18 x 14 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Components of living systems self-organize 2011 oil, enamel, collage, spray paint on canvas 19 x 15 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Equilibrium is a precursor to death 2005-11 oil, enamel, silver tape, velvet on canvas 24 x 24 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung http://www.hotelhome.com.au/HotelHomeWWW/bedspread/DesignSummary.php?bedspreadid=5 2010 acrylic, oil, spray paint, enamel, and gravel on cut canvas 24 x 20 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung Homecoming Mud Puddle 2011 oil, grout, graphite on linen 15 x 12 inches
Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Anti-Expeditious
2011
oil, acrylic, spray paint, card board, various objects
90 x 130 inches
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PRESS RELEASE
It is with great pleasure that Corbett vs. Dempsey presents Negative Joy, a show of new work by Molly Zuckerman-Hartung. In her Corbett vs. Dempsey debut, Zuckerman-Hartung continues a deeply inquisitive exploration of painting as a primary practice, investigating its material raptures, intellectual speed-bumps, and conceptual limits. Zuckerman-Hartung, who was raised in Olympia, Washington, and now lives and teaches in Chicago, simultaneously has an adoring relationship with paint – its gooey, viscous, repulsive, sexy physicality – and is also instinctively skeptical of its fetishistic power. Working abstractly, in relatively small scale, she reaches into a deep trick-bag, pouring, spraying, incising, collaging, assemblaging, linking, amputating, and otherwise thoroughly working and reworking her canvases. An earlier interest in modernist geometry has been subsumed in a much wider array of effects, blasting open cubist facets and placing them in an explosive array of textures, colors, and even images.
Ferociously original and intent on maintaining a permanent personal revolution, Zuckerman-Hartung has rapidly become one of the most visible artists of her generation to emerge in Chicago. Recent exhibitions have included Anna Kustera Gallery (New York) and Spazio Cabinet (Milan), and in upcoming months she will be featured in one-person exhibitions at Jacky Strenz (Frankfurt) in March, and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) in May.
Negative Joy is accompanied by a 44-page catalog featuring full-color reproductions of the paintings and a conversation between John Corbett and Zuckerman-Hartung.