Victor Pesce
Objects and Faces

April 20 – May 25, 2006

The Elizabeth Harris Gallery is pleased to present Objects and Faces, an exhibition of new paintings by Victor Pesce . The Gallery is located at 529 West 20 th Street , 6 th floor and is open Tuesday – Saturday 11-6 pm. There will be a reception for the artist on Thursday, April 20 th , from 6-8 pm.

In this group of paintings Victor Pesce introduces faces along with his more familiar still-lifes of arranged objects. This exhibition is an intimate journey into the painting world of the artist. There is a beautifully illustrated catalogue that accompanies the exhibition with an essay by Dominique Nahas .

In the essay Mr. Nahas writes, “Pesce in his own way is focused on the realization of complex thought by the simplest expression possible.
All of the artist's works share family resemblances. That is to say that all of Pesce's works have a common element: they are layered visual expressions suffused with ambiguous and contradictory impulses… The strength of the work lies in its very capacity not to symbolize anything but to be itself… The artist doesn't paint objects as such as much as he paints conditions, atmospheres, attitudes, states of mind --- all held, seemingly in a state of suspension… Pesce's paintings are where the anthropological world of man conjoins man's imaginings. Here, the artist plays out the interfacings of the dream and the displacements of memory as inscribed in the materiality of the world… The austerity and isolation of each subject brings vulnerability out into the open.”

Victor Pesce was born in Queens , New York . He lives and works in Sharon , Connecticut .

For further information contact Miles Manning at 212 463-9666.