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RJD Gallery
90 Main Street | Sag Harbor, NY 11963
(631) 725-1161 | http://www.rjdgallery.comUPCOMING SHOW PREVIEW / SAG HARBOR, NY
November 26-January 8, 2017B
elieve, a new group show at RJD
Gallery in Sag Harbor, New York,
opens November 26 and will present
new works from many of the gallery’s
most popular artists, including pieces by
Katie O’Hagan, Andrei Zadorine, Pamela
Wilson, Margo Selski, Armando Valero
and others.
For Zadorine, who will be presenting
Girl on the Stool, the theme of the
show hits close to home. “In most of
my works I address the reminiscences
of my childhood, the impressions and
sensations of that time. The further
the childhood is away, the happier it
appears...” the artist says. “I spent my
childhood in a small town close to a
large city, in a tiny flat where every singleobject had its own history, its own life: the
chair, the table or the closet, the lowest
shelf of which was mine. It was always a
mess there no matter how desperately my
parents insisted to fix it. When I pulled
out one toy from the shelf, I started
playing with other toys one after another.
It is not different today: fishing out a
story or an object of some kind from my
memory. I am not hastening to put them
back in order; figuratively speaking, I am
not reaching out my hand to pull another
one out of the shelf—one cup, one paper
horse or a wicker chair is enough to tell a
story in my painting.”
In Valero’s The Cracker of Fire, the
painter explores the idea that “we are
made out of atoms (stardust, a scientificway to describe fire), every time we think
or speak or move we are exciting our
own fires; imagination is another way
to ‘produce’ fires and it is the key to my
work,” Valero says. “I do not believe in
inspiration because that idea makes artists
look like mere laborers. Creation for me
requires imagination that is nurtured by
the discipline of working every day—notBelieve
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