September 13 - October 20, 2007

Opening reception Saturday 9/15 5-7pm.

Gallery Hours: Thursdays and Fridays 5-7pm, Saturdays 3-7pm, or by appointment.

Judy Rifka is known for her "good hands." In painting parlance, the term connotes not just skill, but a quality of touch that eludes almost everyone, including artists. Rifka, adept at riveting movement on the canvas, is equally plastic with her use of materials; neon-intense colors suggest contemporary "internet safe" hues, and digital video; 360 degree stretchers defy method. Rifka's nervous line, always transgressive, sketches the flowering of the grotesque. Fleshy petals, bone, and teeth. One often encounters contemporary arguments that dissect the corpse of culture, but Rifka's task is to classify the extraordinary appeal of the teratoma. Graceful paisleys of genetic manipulations / biological technology / human-machine crossbreeds. Judy Rifka: seminal to the development of a downtown scene that fostered such artists as Keith Harring, David Wojnarowicz and Bruce Nauman-and the use of multi-dimensional canvases, video, and a meld of pop, abstractions and figuration. Rifka's career spans over 50 one-person shows; work can be viewed in museums and foundations throughout the United States and Europe. She has been featured in major exhibitions at the Downtown Show, Gray Art Gallery, NYU; 1983 Whitney Biennial; 1975 Whitney Biennial; Museum of Modern Art; Documenta VII; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Carnegie Mellon University; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; New Museum of Contemporary Art; Brooklyn Museum; New York Public Library; Kunsthalle, Banne; ICA, London; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Museum; Laforet Museum, Tokyo; Kansas City Art Institute Mint Museum, Charlotte; Bass Museum of Art, Miami.

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Tuesday 11/18 at 7PM

redevelop (death valley)

February 2009