A S K E W
June 23 - August 12, 2022
A S K E W
DC Moore Gallery is pleased to present A S K E W, a group exhibition featuring works by Lisha Bai, Tom Burckhardt, James Esber, Chie Fueki, Mary Frank, Sharon Horvath, Mark Innerst, Yvonne Jacquette, Suzanne Joelson, Duane Michals, Carrie Moyer, Katia Santibañez, Karen Schifano, Leah Tacha, Barbara Takenaga, and Alexi Worth
Tom Burckhardt
New York Herald, 2019
Oil on linen, 48 x 56 inches
Over the past years, there has been a globally-shared unsettling of what we have understood as “normal” everyday life. As ideologies and supply chains become more fractured, and too many in power lead with misinformation, truth and fact seem to have taken on a strange flexibility, destabilizing our habits and assumptions in ways that can feel minor one day, overwhelming the next.
The paintings, photographs, and sculptures in the exhibition reflect the many ways in which we have felt this unsettling, and been forced to look inside ourselves, attempting to reset. They suggest the discomfort—and precarious vitality— that can come from the state of being thrown off, of feeling askew.
Karen Schifano
Life During Wartime, 2021
Flashe on canvas, 28 x 36 inches
The connections between these works are strengthened by what is absent: groups gathered, realistic portraiture, naturalistic landscapes. Instead, the artists here create abstract or coded meditations on our inner selves, our bodies, the cosmos, and the immediate environment. Like pieces of a puzzle, each fills in some of the subjective contours of our still-assembling sense of this uncomfortable time.
Karen Schifano
Life During Wartime, 2021
Flashe on canvas, 28 x 36 inches
Chie Fueki
Josh (Energy Version (Solar Eclipse (Up Up Up))), 2021
Acrylic and mixed media on mulberry paper on wood, 84 x 60 inches
Duane Michals
Why Did He Burn the Letter?, c, 1980
Photograph with hand-applied oil paint, mounted on illustration board, 13 1/4 x 19 3/8 inches (image); 15 7/8 x 19 3/4 inches (paper)
Barbara Takenaga
Surfacing (blue with orange edge), 2021
Acrylic on linen, 54 x 45 inches
James Esber
Sleeper, 2021
Acrylic on PVC panel, 48 x 62 1/2 inches
Katia Santibañez
Another Place, 2020
Acrylic on canvas, 42 x 42 inches
Duane Michals
Jasper Johns, 1972
Collage of four gelatin silver prints, 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches
Carrie Moyer
Spectacular Heart Craze, 2021
Acrylic, glitter, mica, graphite on canvas, 78 x 96 inches
Alexi Worth
Ladder, 2022
Mixed media on mesh, 82 x 46/45 inches
Mark Innerst
Beacon, 2019
Oil on canvas in the artist's handmade frame, 60 x 36 inches (canvas); 67 1/2 x 43 inches (frame)
Leah Tacha
Midnight Textures, 2019
Ceramic with digital decals, 20 x 14 x 9 inches
Mary Frank
San Miguel, 3/9, 2015-17
Archival pigment print on bamboo paper, 21 1/2 x 16 inches