*Hey, I'd go.
Theirs is a wild, unsettling world that splits off parallel versions of itself, a hope and the dashing of that hope, a balancing act that hovers between being lost and found.
—Meghan Boody, 2008
Rick Wester Fine Art is very pleased to announce the inaugural one-person exhibition in its series RWFA PICTURE PROJECTS at 511 West 25th Street. Meghan Boody: The Lighthouse And How She Got There is the artist's first solo exhibition in New York since 2000. It continues her exploration into invented worlds traversed by young girls finding themselves in strange lands without maps, guides or protection, and who are eventually transformed by their journeys. While implied threats are omnipresent, Boody's protagonists are vulnerable but plucky, unafraid and invincible.
Accompanying the photographs will be a selection from the artist's project Glass Worlds. These are comprised of precariously stacked animal figures and miniatures residing under glass domes. Glass Worlds provides an antidote to Lighthouse, offering up microcosms set aside from the real world and the ravages of nature that are otherwise ready to topple over at the slightest breath of wind.
Meghan Boody: The Lighthouse And How She Got There opens November 6 and continues through December 6, 2008. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday, 10-6pm, Saturday 11-6pm.
Jehsong Baak: Là ou Ailleurs, opens December 11 and continues through January 24, 2009.
Image Credit: I am the native of a sea-surrounded nook, a cloud-enshadowed land, 2007 (detail)
Fujiflex print, 58 x 78 inches, edition of 5
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