JEFFREY MORABITO
BIRDS AND FLOWERS, VASES AND WINDOWS
Monstera Deliciosa Vase, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 48 x 36 in
France, 2019, Oil on Panel, 20 x 16 in
Bird’s Lament I, 2019, Oil on Panel, 20 x 16 in
Tennis Ball, 2019, Oil on Board, 6 x 6 in
L.A. , 2019, Oil on Board, 14 x 11 in
Black Flowers, 2020, Oil on Panel, 20 x 16 in
South Pacific, 2019, Oil on Panel, 20 x 16 in
Bird’s Lament II, 2019, Oil on Panel, 20 x 16 in
Winter Solstice, 2019, Oil on Linen, 40 x 30 in
Turkey Vulture, 2019, Oil on Panel, 16 x 16 in
Tennis Ball II, 2019, Oil on Board, 6 x 6 in
Airplane Window III, 2019, Oil on Panel, 12 x 12 in
Reflection in Windshield, 2018, Oil on Linen, 48 x 64 in
Berenjena, 2019, Oil on Canvas, 20 x 16 in
South Pole, 2019, Oil on Board, 14 x 11 in
Airplane Window, 2018, Oil on Canvas, 14 x 11 in
Egyptian Vase, 2020, Oil on Canvas, 30 x 24 in
Goose in a Vase, 2018, Oil on Linen, 40 x 32 in
Airplane Window II, 2018, Oil on Linen, 40 x 32 in
East River View, 2019, Oil on Linen, 40 x 28 in
BIRDS AND FLOWERS, VASES AND WINDOWS
January 15th, 2020 — March 1st, 2020
SFA Projects
131 Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday 1pm-8pm
SFA Projects is proud to present Birds and Flowers, Vases and Windows, a one-person exhibition of new works by the New York based artist, Jeffrey Morabito, opening on January 15th, 2020 and on view through March 1st, 2020.
Dating back to 10th -century China, bird-and-flower painting is a genre of painting that consists not only of birds and flowers, but plants, fish, insects, dogs and cats.
Because of his multiracial heritage, residing in many different countries through his career, Morabito’s artistic identity is deeply grounded in both the Chinese and Italian traditions. As both cultural insider and observational voyeur, Morabito is compelled to reexamine said traditions to find new modes of deconstruction, examination, and interpretation. Why is a flower important when placed side by side with an animal? Is it a symbol of personal or universal beauty? Can quotidian modern objects like tennis balls be recast as a stand in for the flower in contemporary life?
Morabito recreates the bird-and-flower genre by seeing objects as pictorial containers, as vases and windows. His compositional parameters highlight the juxtaposition of what is inside, outside, far, close, clear, obstructed, real or fake. He provokes viewers to question the view represented on the canvas; is it a window looking outside or something deeper looking inward? His impasto surfaces push our visual perspectives to the limit by examining how we determine what is artifice in imagery today.
Acclaimed art historian Karen Wilkin describes the amalgamation of Morabito’s multicultural experience, saying “his extended experience of diverse places and cultures, with their often radically varied qualities of light, geography, rhythms, routines, customs, and odors – among many other things, including different languages and alphabets – all resonate within his paintings, but not in ways that we might expect.”
Considering a future of growing multiplicity and terrifying reduction, Birds and Flowers, Vases and Windows explores the significance of the past while carefully eyeing our uncertain future.
January 15th, 2020 — March 1st, 2020
SFA Projects
131 Chrystie Street, New York, NY 10002
Gallery Hours: Thursday-Sunday 1pm-8pm
SFA Projects is proud to present Birds and Flowers, Vases and Windows, a one-person exhibition of new works by the New York based artist, Jeffrey Morabito, opening on January 15th, 2020 and on view through March 1st, 2020.
Dating back to 10th -century China, bird-and-flower painting is a genre of painting that consists not only of birds and flowers, but plants, fish, insects, dogs and cats.
Because of his multiracial heritage, residing in many different countries through his career, Morabito’s artistic identity is deeply grounded in both the Chinese and Italian traditions. As both cultural insider and observational voyeur, Morabito is compelled to reexamine said traditions to find new modes of deconstruction, examination, and interpretation. Why is a flower important when placed side by side with an animal? Is it a symbol of personal or universal beauty? Can quotidian modern objects like tennis balls be recast as a stand in for the flower in contemporary life?
Morabito recreates the bird-and-flower genre by seeing objects as pictorial containers, as vases and windows. His compositional parameters highlight the juxtaposition of what is inside, outside, far, close, clear, obstructed, real or fake. He provokes viewers to question the view represented on the canvas; is it a window looking outside or something deeper looking inward? His impasto surfaces push our visual perspectives to the limit by examining how we determine what is artifice in imagery today.
Acclaimed art historian Karen Wilkin describes the amalgamation of Morabito’s multicultural experience, saying “his extended experience of diverse places and cultures, with their often radically varied qualities of light, geography, rhythms, routines, customs, and odors – among many other things, including different languages and alphabets – all resonate within his paintings, but not in ways that we might expect.”
Considering a future of growing multiplicity and terrifying reduction, Birds and Flowers, Vases and Windows explores the significance of the past while carefully eyeing our uncertain future.