Soloway is pleased to present:Rebecca Watson Horn, Rub It In
organized by Pat PalermoSeptember 18 - October 23, 2011
Opening Reception: Sunday, September 18, 6-8 pm
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Cut, sprayed, and scraped, mudlike layers of pigment (Mudlike is too specific--many of the works are practically nothing)
R.W. Horn's engagement with painting is almost as forensic as it is aesthetic. Her work is fabricated debris; her surfaces are rubbed into themselves,
more skin than stage, (maybe more wood and burlap than either of those things (more plastic spray-painted fingerprints and seaweed))
F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, "Action is character."
(William Carlos Williams wrote, "[imagination] seems to destroy us.") In these works ("it is only in isolate flecks that") texture is history ("something / is given off")
(Rub it in.)
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Rebecca Watson Horn (b. 1981) studied at Jerusalem's Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, the Yale Norfolk Program, and received her BFA from The Cooper Unionin 2007. She has exhibited her work at Exit Art, La Mama Gallery, and the 2010 'Brucennial' in New York, as well as The Hotel Pupik in Austria. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
