Lou Hoyer’s Symphony for Wind and Waves has been featured in Number 146/Winter 2018 - 2019 Bomb Magazine pages, 145 - 152.
Sarah Slappey, Squeeze, oil on canvas, 20 x 20"
Lou Hoyer, Verses 7, charcoal on paper, 28 x 20"
Sarah Slappey, Blue Spotlight, oil on paper, 20 x 11"
Lou Hoyer, Verses 3, 28 1/4 x 20"
Contact: Cecilia Whittaker-Doe, Don Doe Opening Reception June 2, 6-9pm June 2 – July 1, 2018
SRO GALLERY is pleased to present Behind the Curtain. An exhibit of drawings and paintings by Berlin artist Lou Hoyer and artist Sarah Slappey from Brooklyn.
Lou Hoyer’s drawings and Sarah Slappyey’s paintings bring the viewer inward toward a psychological territory akin to James Ensor’s paintings and the erotic drawings of Aubrey Beardsley. Paintings by Sue Williams from the late 1990’s and early 2000’s come to mind. Both artists use the figure imaginatively as a means to explore an impossible scape, making way for contemplation on the personal and intimate.
Each of these artists plays with our perception of beauty, the uncanny and the narrative in art.
Lou Hoyer on her work: “…I like to think of my paintings as a theatre of a sort with the characters that keep returning….As for the stories, I think of my paintings more as of particular moments….”
Sarah Slappey on her paintings “…my paintings play with darkness and foreboding through varying degrees of information.” “The uncanny, horror, and mythology are central pillars of my work.”
Through the works, shown together in this exhibit, we experience interior and exterior cinema halls, grassy fields and backyards filled with decadent licentious scenes. There are metaphors of love, longing and fear that bring to mind a marvelous realism that at times is like an Isabel Allende translation of the world into a seemingly naïve and tragicomical narrative.
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