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Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez

November 20 – December 23, 2015

Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez
Doron Langberg, Embrace, 2014, oil on linen, 80 x 45 in.

Doron Langberg, Embrace, 2014, oil on linen, 80 x 45 in.

Doron Langberg, Drifting Off, 2014, oil on linen, 70 x 55 in.

Doron Langberg, Drifting Off, 2014, oil on linen, 70 x 55 in.

Doron Langberg, Gaby, Julia, and Amy, 2015, oil on linen, 60 x 70 in.

Doron Langberg, Gaby, Julia, and Amy, 2015, oil on linen, 60 x 70 in.

Doron Langberg, Mark and Aubrey, 2015, oil on linen, 80 x 40 in.

Doron Langberg, Mark and Aubrey, 2015, oil on linen, 80 x 40 in.

Doron Langberg, Shoes, 2015, oil on linen, 18 x 24 in.

Doron Langberg, Shoes, 2015, oil on linen, 18 x 24 in.

Doron Langberg, Gaby, 2015, oil on linen, 18 x 24 in.

Doron Langberg, Gaby, 2015, oil on linen, 18 x 24 in.

Doron Langberg, Tom, 2014, oil on linen, 60 x 50 inches

Doron Langberg, Tom, 2014, oil on linen, 60 x 50 inches

Doron Langberg, Sleep, 2014, oil on linen, 50 x 70 inches

Doron Langberg, Sleep, 2014, oil on linen, 50 x 70 inches

Doron Langberg, Jarrett, 2015, oil on linen, 18 x 24 inches

Doron Langberg, Jarrett, 2015, oil on linen, 18 x 24 inches

Doron Langberg, Tom #2, 2015, oil on linen, 12 x 16 inches

Doron Langberg, Tom #2, 2015, oil on linen, 12 x 16 inches

Doron Langberg, Window, 2014, oil on linen, 35 x 24 inches

Doron Langberg, Window, 2014, oil on linen, 35 x 24 inches

Doron Langberg, Tyler, 2015, oil on linen, 35 x 45 inches

Doron Langberg, Tyler, 2015, oil on linen, 35 x 45 inches

Doron Langberg, Gray Umbrella, 2015, oil on linen, 45 x 60 inches

Doron Langberg, Gray Umbrella, 2015, oil on linen, 45 x 60 inches

Doron Langberg, Julia, 2015, oil on linen, 18 x 24 inches

Doron Langberg, Julia, 2015, oil on linen, 18 x 24 inches

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, SURE THING Painting, 2015, oil paint on linen and fabric on masonite, 26 x 16 inches

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, SURE THING Painting, 2015, oil paint on linen and fabric on masonite, 26 x 16 inches

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Red VElet 2IN1 BODY, 2014, oil and spray paint on fabric, 14 x 22 in.

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Red VElet 2IN1 BODY, 2014, oil and spray paint on fabric, 14 x 22 in.

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Blue Velvet LIKE A FACE TOUCH GAZE Painting, 2014, oil paint on fabric, 21 x 16 inches

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Blue Velvet LIKE A FACE TOUCH GAZE Painting, 2014, oil paint on fabric, 21 x 16 inches

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Yellow Spiral TO BE A MAN...Painting, 2014, oil and acrylic on fabric, 24 x 17 inches

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Yellow Spiral TO BE A MAN...Painting, 2014, oil and acrylic on fabric, 24 x 17 inches

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Blue Velvet UNFINISHED MOM Painting, 2014, crushed blue velvet, 23 x 16 inches

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Blue Velvet UNFINISHED MOM Painting, 2014, crushed blue velvet, 23 x 16 inches

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Red Velvet 2IN1 BODY Painting, 2014, oil and acrylic paint on fabric, 21 x 16 inches

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Red Velvet 2IN1 BODY Painting, 2014, oil and acrylic paint on fabric, 21 x 16 inches

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Red Velvet CAN'T GET TO YES, 2015, oil paint on fabric, 24 x 32 in.

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Red Velvet CAN'T GET TO YES, 2015, oil paint on fabric, 24 x 32 in.

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Red Velvet INDEPENDENTLY BLUE, 2015, oil and acrylic paint on fabric, 22 x 18 in.

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Red Velvet INDEPENDENTLY BLUE, 2015, oil and acrylic paint on fabric, 22 x 18 in.

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Blue Velvet DON'T SCREAM Painting, 2014, oil and acrylic paint, fabric on linen, 21 x 16 inches

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Blue Velvet DON'T SCREAM Painting, 2014, oil and acrylic paint, fabric on linen, 21 x 16 inches

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Blue Velvet LITE TOUCH, 2014, oil paint on fabric, 21 x 16 inches,  

Gaby Collins-Fernandez, Blue Velvet LITE TOUCH, 2014, oil paint on fabric, 21 x 16 inches

 

Danese/Corey is delighted to present new paintings by two emerging New York artists, Doron Langberg and Gaby Collins-Fernandez. As students at Yale University, they became friends; as artists, they share studio space and enjoy a continuing dialogue about painting and the very nature of art.

 

Langberg has said, “using a sexual image can be a powerful vehicle” to demonstrate a broad range of emotions – desire and loss, vulnerability and tenderness. While his paintings are formed by deeply felt personal experience, they transcend their homoerotic content and embrace the universal human condition. He views the figurative tradition through a prism that references art history – Ingres, Bonnard, Manet, Whistler, Homer.

 

Collins-Fernandez employs seductive materials in her intimately scaled works, animating the surfaces with thick applications of pigment and strips and swags of velvet – its textural delights and associations with garments, curtains, and costume. Snippets of New York street conversation, captured fragments of a highly energetic and diverse urban culture, are embedded within the dense topography of her paintings.

 

Doron Langberg was the 2011 recipient of The Schoelkopf Travel Prize at Yale University and a finalist for the New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowship in 2015. He earned a BFA from the University of Pennsylvania and an MFA from Yale University. He is the Adjunct Professor in Foundations at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art and Painting at Montclair State University. He lives and works in Queens, NY.

Gaby Collins-Fernandez holds a BA from Dartmouth College and an MFA from Yale University. She was the 2013 recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Visual Art Grant Award. She lives and works in Queens, NY.