Mixed Greens is pleased to start the season with a solo exhibition by
Rudy
Shepherd. The show will include a new series of photographs, a
life-sized cave and a new video.
Upon entering the gallery, the viewer
will be confronted by a large, white cloud cave floating in a blue sky.
Surrounding the cave will be a series of 40 x 40 inch photographs entitled “Ursa
Major Contemplating the Meaning of the Universe.” Through music emanating from
the cave, the viewer is lured inside to sit with a video monitor. Both the video
and the accompanying photographs inspire conversations related to identity,
fatherhood, and home. It becomes apparent that it is not the outward costume
that is scary, but the potential and mysterious nature of the individual within
the disguise.
Mixed Greens is pleased to present their first solo exhibition of
Miami-based artist A.A.
Rucci entitled The Temple in the Trembling Prairie.
In his
paintings, Rucci reduces an entire performative act into a single image. A
staged reality results from a complex documentary-style methodology that
combines performance, digital drawings and traditional painting. Rucci¿s
small-scale figures on a relatively large expanse of ground encourage viewer
intimacy. His figures are rendered headless to allow the viewer to engage in the
narrative and complete the character, not in an attempt to decapitate or
diminish. The main character in Rucci¿s paintings is a woman named Nicola—a
female protagonist and center of his painted universe. She, like us, can
remember specifics about emotional conditions and possibly what someone was
wearing, but architectural or background elements are reduced to prop-like
signifiers. In Nicola¿s world, lighting is consistent and undramatic… in memory
there are no shadows.
