Margeaux Walter

Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to present the group exhibition, Garden of Delights, featuring work by Rachel Denny, Katherine Gray, Mark Licari and Erich Woll, curated by art consultant Dena Rigby.

This exhibition reveals a strange tension between man and the attempt to control the environment and its natural rhythms. Whimsy and humor are used to address underlying unease of potential environmental change. The playful quality of the show celebrates a world of handcrafted magic, yet belies an underlying peculiar sense of unnaturalness.

Artist Rachel Denny explores the unexpected and absurd moment when human activity and the natural world intersect. In her work "Fuchsia Buck," a mounted deer head is kept warm and precious in a custom-knit fuchsia sweater. The unfortunate buck finds itself as a trophy displayed by a proud hunter in all its fuzzy warm glory.

Other curious hybrids are explored in the work of Erich Woll, whose glass squirrels live a checkered life as both pest and wise sage. In, "It Takes Ten Squirrels to Make a Squirrel Pie," Woll has created a ring of squirrels ceremoniously presenting shotgun shells in what appears as some sort of archaic religious ceremony.

The moody watercolors of Mark Licari present an out-of-control world in which the relationship between nature and man is at odds and intertwined at the same time. Licari’s “Steroid Moth” has evolved after generations of attack into a strangely buffed attack moth.

Conversely, Katherine Gray's "Tabletopiarie" are inspired by the highly manicured topiary of Versailles. Gray’s renditions however, are more exquisitely designed in a modern Baroque style, executed in a Venetian glassblowing style.


Katherine Gray
Katherine Gray
Cloudland
2004
Blown glass
34 x 30 x 7 inches


Katherine Gray
Katherine Gray
Tabletopiaries V
2008
Blown glass
Various sizes


Katherine Gray
Katherine Gray
Cloud Mounds
2008
Blown glass
10 x 20 x 20 inches


Mark Licari
Mark Licari
Steroid Moth
2007
Ink, watercolor and colored pencil on paper
15 x 22 inches


Erich Woll
Erich Woll
It's Better to Regret Something You Have Done Than Something You Haven't Done
2006
Blown glass & sand-cast glass
6.5 x 22.5 x 8 inches


Erich Woll
Erich Woll
It Takes Ten Squirrels to Make a Squirrel Pie
2006
Blown glass, sand-cast glass, shotgun shells
45 x 41 x 41 inches


Erich Woll
Erich Woll
If You Take Cranberries and Stew Them Like Applesauce They Taste More Like Prunes Than Rhubarb Does
Blown glass & sand-cast glass
17 x 21 x 11 inches


Erich Woll
Erich Woll
Best Not to Get into a Stinking Match with a Skunk
Blown glass & sand-cast glass
23 x 23 x 9 inches


Rachel Denny
Rachel Denny
Trophy
2009
Polyurethane foam, wool, thread, wood, and antler
33 x 17 x 23 inches


Rachel Denny
Rachel Denny
Thumper
2009
Polyurethane foam, angora, thread, and steel
18 x 8 x 9 inches


Rachel Denny
Rachel Denny
Ewe
2009
Polyurethane foam, wood, steel, thread, and wool
42 x 48 x 14 inches


Winston Wächter Fine Art is pleased to present our premier solo exhibition with New York artist Ed Cohen. Ed Cohen's vibrant abstractions possess a ripe and seductive surface of bright, fluid acrylic paints. He work is rooted deep in emotion and in his work Cohen hopes to give the viewer a moment apart from everyday life.

The combination of energetic movement against the solid background generates a natural sense of balance, allowing the eye to focus on the movement and detail within each piece. Entirely self-taught, Cohen relies on a spiritual impulse when painting.


Ed Cohen
Ed Cohen
Untitled
2009
Fluid acrylic on panel
20 x 20 inches


Ed Cohen
Ed Cohen
The Incandescence of Life
2009
Fluid acrylic on panel
44 x 69 inches


Ed Cohen
Ed Cohen
And Around Goes the Wild Imagination
2009
Fluid acrylic on panel
24 x 24 inches


Ed Cohen
Ed Cohen
Her Voice Made the Sky Acutest at its Vanishing
2009
Fluid acrylic on panel
44 x 67 inches