Kristin Posehn, Elk Grove, 2008 Photographs printed on vinyl, mounted on wood with rebar 31 x 31 x 114 inchesPARLOR AND ROSEVILLE
NOVEMBER 14 – DECEMBER 19, 2008 Opening Friday, November 14, 6-8 PM
KATE WERBLE GALLERY 83 VANDAM STREET NEW YORK, NY 10013
www.katewerblegallery.comwww.kposehn.com
Anna Betbeze’s paintings are tactile invitations to color and texture. Using store
bought, natural Flokati wool rugs ordered from Greece, Betbeze creates her surface
through a toxic and physical process involving dying, cutting, combing and bleaching.
Her work presents planes of rich and texturized color through media often
associated with domestic life. In Parlor, the paintings’ unexpected synthesis of depth
and pigment form a strong visual structure within each work, furthering the
paradox of the abject and the beautiful.
Born in Mobile, Alabama, Anna Betbeze now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
and she teaches painting at Vassar College. A graduate of Yale’s MFA program in
2006, this show will be Anna’s first 2-person exhibition in NYC.
In Roseville, Kristin Posehn builds large-scale replicas of supporting columns
from underneath freeways. Using high-resolution digital inkjet prints, Posehn
meticulously mounts photographs onto hollow plywood structures. Instead of
serving as a window, the photographs appear to become the surfaces they picture. As
a mixture of sculpture, photography and installation, these works allow for an
intimacy and examination of the suburban landscape that is otherwise unavailable in
everyday life.
Born in California, Kristin Posehn now lives and works in Maastricht, the
Netherlands, as a research fellow at the Jan van Eyck Academie. She recently
completed an architectural work relating to the ghost town of Metropolis, USA,
which was realized outdoors, in public space, with Museum De Paviljoens in Almere,
the Netherlands. Her work is currently included in the show, “Chanting Baldessari”
at the Bonnefanten Museum in Maastricht. This will be Posehn’s first 2-person
exhibition in NYC.
Kate Werble Gallery opened in July 2008 with a group exhibition, Show 1. This
exhibition will be the gallery’s fourth exhibition and the second in a series of 2-
person shows extending into May of 2009.
