Dual Perspectives
An exhibition featuring paintings by Maria Giancola and photography by Sam Hetzel
Curated by Alana Integlia and Janine d’Auguste
Reception: June 10, 2010, 7-10 p.m.
coLAB Arts
49 Bayard Street, 3rd Floor
New Brunswick, NJ 08901
Featuring live music performance by Michael Lawton and his band
through the Somerset Jazz Consortium (www.somersetjazz.com)
Additional gallery hours:
Tues-Thurs
6-8 p.m.
A comparison both visually and conceptually of Maria Giancola and Sam Hetzel’s work is the conceptual embodiment of this exhibition, Dual Perspectives. I see their work as playing off of the standard binary structure, more specifically masculinity versus femininity. The medium, the choice of imagery and how they came to represent the works within the gallery itself, comes from what I perceive as their gendered perspective. The manner in which they use this binary as a means of comparison is subtle. Giancola and Hetzel reference key concepts in the history of art to play with the visually gendered landscapes they depict in their imagery. Their work, strong alone, complements and in a way argues the significance of gender in art; the subtleties of their visual and conceptual references prove the inspiring and knowledgeable ways in which they try to represent their dual perspectives. The perspective of an artist, and any individual is influenced innumerably; it is not just the gender binary that has been the muse to Giancola and Hetzel but also notions such as “private versus public” and “natural versus industrial”. There are so many visual cues that inspire my reasons for analyzing these artists’ works through the simplicity of the binary system but the obvious conceptual duality of their work is unavoidably the most persuasive. – Alana Integlia, Curator