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Roq La Rue Gallery
presents
Opening Night: Friday May 9th
6-9pm
(show runs until June 7th)
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 Roq
la Rue is very pleased to present an exhibition of new works by two
painters, Esao Andrews (NY) and Fuco Ueda (Japan). Both paint in wildly
different styles, yet have a similarity in their use of surrealistic
dream-like imagery and ambiguously sinister atmospheres.
 Esao Andrews
paints
with oil on wood panels with a refined painterly technique. Much of his
work features a subtle dose of black humor, and his
subject matter
ranges from lovely women entangled with alien-like organics, to decayed
buildings that play with the ideas of sanctuary, to full on
surrealistically morphing, mashed, and twisted characters that explore
allegorical themes.
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 Fuco Ueda
has a delicate style created by mixing
acrylics with an almost watercolor effect while remaining incredibly
vivid, and the use of shell powder which creates and unusual finish.
Her paintings usually depict young women who seem to be the sole humans
in her magical realist narratives. These young women often interact
with nature, and often with each other with a subtle ferocity. For this
series the chrysanthemum is a dominant image, a symbolically charged
flower in several cultures, particularly Japan. |