Haunch of Venison Gallery

Haunch of Venison, offers up two interesting artists.

A Project Room by Marlene Mocquet, features new work by the artist.

It includes four paintings and two ceramic works.

The exhibition opened Thursday May 17th and will run through June 16th.

concurrent with a solo exhibition at the gallery by Japanese artist

Chihara Shiota.

                           Hunch of Venison, 550 West 21st street, NYC.

Mocquet's works depict whimsical fantasy of childlike beings and creatures,
the paintings morph into a macabre, phantasm world, induced hallucination.

"Someone left the cake out in the rain, I don't think that I can take it,
cause it took so long to bake it and I'll never have that recipe, again, oh no."
                                            Jimmy Webb

Mocquet's paintings and ceramics are remenisant of Gahan Wilson cartoons.

        "The Trumpeting of the Paint" is a modest nine inches high and

features a diaphanous figure gathering apples in a candy-colored landscape.

Chiharu Shiota

Shiota's "boxed" thread works, encapsulate personal found objects,

in black thread. Shiota's exhibition will run concurrently at the gallery

with Projectroom by Marlene Mocquet.

Shiota's large scale window installations, made entirely of found window

frames from East Berlin.

The windows are salvaged and recycled from demolition sites, deserted

buildings etc. are layered and combined to create a hollow structures lit from

within.

               Page Sullivan and Gillian Maslow enjoyed the exhibition.