4SIGHT
/ from Realism to Abstraction
Artist Bios
Hovey
Brock is an artist and writer who lives and works in Brooklyn. A graduate
of Princeton Universities studio program, he began showing in independent
spaces such as BWAC and White Columns. Over time he has shown on both
coasts and in Lille, France. Venues include the Work Space in Soho and
the legendary guerilla art show Brookworld in 1996 featuring many important
Williamsburg artists. He has written for ARTnews, Tema Celeste, and Paper.
Currently he freelances, writing monographs and artists statements. From
1994 until it closed in 1997, Hovey Brock was affiliated with the Condeso/Lawler
gallery. He joined the Jeffrey Coploff Gallery in 1999, where he just
completed his second solo show this October. He has been reviewed by Roberta
Smith, listed by Ken Johnson, and has had a monograph written about him
by Dominique Nahas.
Margaret
Neill was born in Ohio and now lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Neill
earned an MFA degree at Brooklyn College and has exhibited work in a variety
of settings including the Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, the Monastery
Plazy in the Czech Republic and the Lobby Gallery at the Central Library
of Brooklyn. She employs a variety of formats in her work, including works
on paper, painting, wall drawings, and a limited edition book of photographs
called "Common Place: Earth, Sea, and Sky, Red Hook, Brooklyn. Her
work emerges from an engagement with her materials and is concerned neither
with narrative or image. Her abstract works on paper are process oriented
and biomorphic in origin. The shapes are indirectly related to molecular
structures and have a feeling of moving across and through the picture
plane. They are a response to movement, stillness, silence, sound, darkness,
and light.
Elizabeth
O'Reilly exhibits in the U.S. and Ireland, most recently at The George
Billis Gallery in Chelsea. She is represented in Ireland by The Taylor
Galleries in Dublin, and has been included in a number of exhibitions,
including The Painting Center and The National Academy of Design in New
York and Haverford College, PA. Irish-born, but Brooklyn based since 1986,
O'Reilly's paintings frequently celebrate the discarded place, urban and
rural locales of poignant and unexpected beauty. Remaining involved with
on-site paintings, O'Reilly seeks out spots where grace is not always
in the obvious places: sites where nature and vestiges of human presence
intertwine. Painted on location in the Red Hook area of Brooklyn, these
paintings reflect the painter's ongoing concerns with subtlety, economy
and simplicity. The disused and discarded remnants of Red Hook's industrial
past exist between the fury of use and of neglect. O'Reilly is interested
in that and tries to capture their sense of expectancy and poetic loneliness,
and the oddities of the many marriages between industry and nature.
David
Konigsberg was born in Warren PA and lives and works in Brooklyn NY.
His urban and rural experience plays out in a love for both landscape
and conceptual narrative. Because he is trained as a writer, he developed
as an artist with a writer's instincts. He likes storytelling and thinks
of groups of paintings as novellas. While he employs many traditions of
painting, including modeling, naturalism and perspective, he does not
consider himself a strict realist, nor does he "paint what he sees."
Even when painting from direct experience, his mode of realism comes from
memory and as such is closer to fiction. Konigsberg's work has appeared
in galleries and art centers throughout the United States. A solo show
of his work opens this April at Allen Sheppard Gallery in New York.
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