Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper, 1985
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This 1985 show explored the intimacy of narratives found in Americana.It included a mural size painting on wood that married the style of Pennsylvania Dutch barn paintings with Kafka’s story, Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper.The show also included paintings which utilized the folklore technique of “reverse painting”. However, this technique was reinvented by replacing the traditional glass canvas with a metal wire mesh canvas. The resulting effect challenged the conventional foreground/background order of painting on canvas.
Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper, 1985
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This 1985 show explored the intimacy of narratives found in Americana.It included a mural size painting on wood that married the style of Pennsylvania Dutch barn paintings with Kafka’s story, Before the Law Stands a Doorkeeper.The show also included paintings which utilized the folklore technique of “reverse painting”. However, this technique was reinvented by replacing the traditional glass canvas with a metal wire mesh canvas. The resulting effect challenged the conventional foreground/background order of painting on canvas.
Izhar Patkin
Izhar Patkin
Izhar Patkin
Veiled Threats, 1999 - Current
A series inspired by the poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Rooms of wall size paintings in ink on pleated illusion (tulle curtains). 14 x 22 x 28 in. each
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Agha Shahid Ali and Izhar Patkin started the collaboration on “Veiled Threats” in 1999
In this project, each of Patkin’s veil rooms corresponds to one of Shahid’s poems.
Veiled Threats, 1999 - Current
A series inspired by the poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Rooms of wall size paintings in ink on pleated illusion (tulle curtains). 14 x 22 x 28 in. each
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Agha Shahid Ali and Izhar Patkin started the collaboration on “Veiled Threats” in 1999
In this project, each of Patkin’s veil rooms corresponds to one of Shahid’s poems.
Veiled Threats, 1999 - Current
A series inspired by the poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Rooms of wall size paintings in ink on pleated illusion (tulle curtains). 14 x 22 x 28 in. each
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Agha Shahid Ali and Izhar Patkin started the collaboration on “Veiled Threats” in 1999
In this project, each of Patkin’s veil rooms corresponds to one of Shahid’s poems.
Veiled Threats, 1999 - Current
A series inspired by the poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Rooms of wall size paintings in ink on pleated illusion (tulle curtains). 14 x 22 x 28 in. each
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Agha Shahid Ali and Izhar Patkin started the collaboration on “Veiled Threats” in 1999
In this project, each of Patkin’s veil rooms corresponds to one of Shahid’s poems.
Veiled Threats, 1999 - Current
A series inspired by the poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Rooms of wall size paintings in ink on pleated illusion (tulle curtains). 14 x 22 x 28 in. each
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Agha Shahid Ali and Izhar Patkin started the collaboration on “Veiled Threats” in 1999
In this project, each of Patkin’s veil rooms corresponds to one of Shahid’s poems.
Veiled Threats, 1999 - Current
A series inspired by the poems of Agha Shahid Ali
Rooms of wall size paintings in ink on pleated illusion (tulle curtains). 14 x 22 x 28 in. each
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Agha Shahid Ali and Izhar Patkin started the collaboration on “Veiled Threats” in 1999
In this project, each of Patkin’s veil rooms corresponds to one of Shahid’s poems.
Five Piece Suit, 1987
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​A three-piece suit may limit your freedom of movement, but a five-piece suit will unleash your imagination! This 1987 show was a topsy-turvy melange of multiple disparate narratives, techniques, and mediums brought together by visual and verbal puns, political innuendos, and metaphors.
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Installation Views at Holly Solomon Gallery
China
oil, screen, velvet frames. Various sizes.
The Encounter (part 2), 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 34 x 28 in
Black Silver, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 28 x 34 in
Black Rain, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 34 x 28 in
Pointes East
Black Lotus, Red Magnolia, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 48 x 36 in
Abanico, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 42 x 42 in
Live and Learn, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 28 x 34 in
The Bath, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 72 x 48 in
Pictures Are Nets, 1987
oil, screen, leaf. 48 x 36 in
Odalisque, 1988
oil stick on screen, velvet, wood frame. 42 x 58 x 6 in
Chaperones, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 4 x 6 in
Warming The Pot, 1987
oil, screen, leaf. 34 x 28 in
The Gathering, 1987
Shadow, 1986
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 53 x 37 in
Strange Fruit, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 4 x 6 in
Bow, 1985
oil, screen, leaf. 52 1/2 x 36 1/2 in
Fan, 1985
oil through screen. 53x 37 in
Mixed Up China, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 36 x 48 in
Black Lotus, Blue Magnolia, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 48 x3 6 in
Come True, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 36 x 48 in
High Tea, 1986
oil stick, screen, fabric. 34 x 28 in
Next Stop China, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 48 x 36 in
Vase Lock, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 48 x 48 in
Say Ahh, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 38 x 32 in
What Matches, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 28 x 34 in
Cocks and Pansies
oil, screen, velvet frames. Various sizes.
Balancing Your Lemons, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 36 x 28 in
Five Piece Suit, 1983
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 36 x 48 in
Tokens, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 36 x 48 in
Pecking Order, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 48 x 36 in
The Cry, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 72 x 48 in
Trophy, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 48 x 36 in
Fatter Cock Bigger Eggs, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 48 x 36 in
Pansy, Rose, Others, 1987
oil, screen, leaf, enamel, velvet border. 48 x 36 in
Currently title-less
Hens Across The Water 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 48 x 48 in
Sun And Flowers, 1987
oil, screen, metal, leaf. 34 x 28 in
Still Life And Pansy, 1987
oil on screen. 36 x 24 in
Cupids and Presidents
(5 images, 2 currently missing due to l.q)
Sitting Angel, 1983
photostat, scrim, lights, embroidery, wood frame. 84 x 65 x 6 in
Stairway to Paradise
ink and enamel on pleated neoprene.
Funnels and Trumpets:
Portrait of the Self as a Breather 1987 (11 images)
perforated paper collages, chrome coat paper, photo prints, enamel spray paint. 80 x 52 in. each
