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X-WR-CALNAME:Jessica Rohrer: Sweeping the BQE in New York City at P.P.
	O.W. - Eventful
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SUMMARY:Jessica Rohrer: Sweeping the BQE
DESCRIPTION:  P.P.O.W Gallery is pleased to announce our second solo e
	xhibition of Jessica Rohrer's paintings\, entitled Sweeping the BQE. T
	he BQE is the Brooklyn Queens Expressway\, the brainchild of Robert Mo
	ses that was originally intended to alleviate traffic throughout Brook
	lyn and on the bridges to Manhattan. This construction still sparks co
	ntroversy today as an unnatural fissure that both connects and disrupt
	s. Having lived within one hundred feet of the BQE for over seven year
	s\, Rohrer's paintings record and literally reflect the cars\, roads\,
	 neighborhoods and implanted nature that a traveler might find while n
	ear this thoroughfare. Rohrer's painting technique evokes multiple sty
	les\, multiple artists\, and requires multiple inspections. The car is
	 her primary focus in this series\, extending the lineage of artists l
	ike Robert Bechtle. The cars are immobile\, unattended\, and act as po
	rtrait-like substitutes for the people who use them. Using the tools o
	f photography\, memory\, and direct observation\, Rohrer distills the 
	BQE into something that is partially minimalist and photorealistic\, t
	urning the geometry of man-made architecture and engineering into unse
	ttling abstraction. Rohrer's controlled\, leaf-by-leaf construction of
	 the isolated trees is paired with the manipulated\, haunting reflecti
	ons present in the cars' windows. These paintings also function as doc
	uments of a moment within the artist's life. Rohrer has consistently p
	ainted where she has lived. Whether it is Kewaskum\, Evanston\, New Ha
	ven or Brooklyn\, her paintings act as capsules for her own biography 
	and also for those places. Rohrer both preserves and pays homage to th
	e seemingly mundane and evergreen elements of these places. Vinyl sidi
	ng\, mini-vans\, and iron gates are given a focus not normally benefit
	ed to them but in these paintings it is justified and deserved. Jessic
	a Rohrer received her M.F.A. in painting from the Yale University Scho
	ol of Art.\n
LOCATION:P.P.O.W. @ 555 West 25th Street, New York, New York 10001 Uni
	ted States
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