Exhibition

Quotidian/Episodes: Eric Legris + Sara Rahmanian

13 Jan 2022 – 13 Feb 2022

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Thursday
11:00 – 18:00
Friday
11:00 – 18:00
Saturday
11:00 – 18:00
Sunday
11:00 – 18:00
Wednesday
11:00 – 18:00

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1969 Gallery | LES

New York
New York, United States

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  • M15 South Ferry bus via 2nd Avenue to ALLEN ST/DELANCEY ST.
  • B/D subway train to GRAND STREET
  • F/J/M/Z subway train to DELANCEY STREET/ESSEX STEET
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1969 Gallery presents Quotidian/Episodes: Eric Legris + Sara Rahmanian, a two-person exhibition consisting of paintings that explore personal remembrances of events anchored in times of contemplation.

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The title alludes to the psychology of the everyday within episodic memories — the conscious act to discern the emotional, temporal and spatial qualities of a past experience.

In Sara Rahmanian's paintings the self-reflexive gaze functions as a performative act. Noting the quotidian in solitude, Rahmanian observes objects on the brink of transition. Each painting builds up uncanny vistas of interior spaces where the banal morphs into a magically realistic nuance. Fragments of place and snippets of humor emerge on re-imagined playful scenes .

Using visual maneuvers of defamiliarization, Rahmanian disrupts her own mnemonic diaries. Each painting encompasses a syncretism of memories — yesteryears in Teheran are in dialogue with a recent emigration to the American Northeast. Throughout her paintings, Sara Rahmanian continues to explore expanding possibilities of meaning-making. This potency is inherent in the simple act of pausing to observe the everydayness of material things.

Eric Legris’ work explores ways to access sensorial insight through reinterpreting and repainting his own paintings and hand-woven tapestries. Like images of the mind, Legris paintings are dynamic as they variate from one surface to the next, whether in dimension, material, and texture. Each painting becomes a redolent transformation that is actually a re-creation of previous processes.

Legris pieces together points of time in every instant that he revisits an event. Evocative of pentimento, to paint over the texture of layered paint, Legris delves into old memories according to his current somatic tempo: an immediate plethora of thoughts, emotions and sensations coalesce. Every painting reminds of an event and at the same time an accumulation of distortions, deletions and additions caused by cyclical recollections of the everyday.

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Eric Legris

Sara Rahmanian

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