HONG KONG.- A Departure from Reality III: The Tender Truth features over 30 pieces of photographic artworks from 10 different series by Mainland Chinese artists Maleonn and Jiang Pengyi at both The Blindspot Gallery and Blindspot Annex in Hong Kong. Ma…
New Paintings by Steve Mumford at Postmasters Gallery
NEW YORK, NY.- Postmasters Gallery presents an exhibition of new paintings by Steve Mumford. The show will be on view until March 27, 2010. This will be Mumford’s fifth exhibition at Postmasters presenting two distinct groups of paintings: large scale heroic figurative ones and graffiti based text works. In his new paintings Mumford continues to investigate the war in Iraq, based on his experiences there and the understanding he gleaned from civilians and combatants. Sometimes from the perspective of the American soldiers, sometimes from the insurgents’ point of view, these paintings explore peoples’ motivations in war, the ties that bind as well as fracture. Iraqi prostitutes at a Western hotel; rifts between foreign jihadis and Iraqi nationalists; tender farewells of a suicide bomber; anguid afternoons of a US platoon; Koranic exhortations to jihad