DIRTY HANDS
348 South 4th Street, Brooklyn
Opening October 3rd from 4 - 6SOLOWAY is pleased to present Dirty Hands, an exhibition of new works by Sadie Laska, Jessie Stead and Annette Wehrhahn, organized by Munro Galloway.
Dirty Hands invokes the materially and morally ambiguous, admits expeditious means to violent ends, and lowers a curtain over the visage of spotless purity. The initial gesture, the opening remark, the first impression immediately arouse our suspicions; truth is revealed through suppression and obfuscation. The assassination of beauty is a foregone conclusion, what remains is the smear of ink, the blink of the cursor, the mark of the intruder. In the end we come clean, acknowledging that, as de Beauvoir quotes Sartre, we are "half-victims, half-accomplices, like everyone else."
Jessie Stead is a multi-purpose artist and motion-picture maker. Using a variety of means she produces assorted interdisciplinary works that often combine image, music and text with a meandering conceptual focus; often employing video as a kind of adhesive to synthesize unlikely collaborations of seemingly disparate subject matter, formal strategies, technological experiments and other people. Stead's mixed media stuff shows at different types of venues locally and internationally. Recent cinematic work has screened at MoMA PS1, Anthology Film Archives, The New York Film Festival and The London Film Festival. www.jessiestead.com
Sadie Laska is an artist and musician living in Brooklyn. She plays in the bands, Sticky Music, IUD, and Growing. She has performed at numerous museums and galleries, including PS1 Center for Contemporary Art, Gavin Brown's Enterprise and Dietch Projects. Her paintings have also been exhibited at a number of galleries including; CANADA, Leo Koenig Project, and Stairwell Gallery RI.
Annette Wehrhahn is an artist as well as one of the co-founders of SOLOWAY. She lives and works behind the gallery in Brooklyn, New York. In her work she investigates the futility of communication, the complexities of understanding and thinking, and considers the absurdity of misunderstanding. Her work has been exhibited at Gavin Brown's Enterprise and at Sister Gallery in Los Angeles.
