Kamrooz Aram: The Turquoise Agenda: WINDOW, 91 Walker Street New York, NY (corner of Walker and Lafayette Street)

Anton Kern Gallery is pleased to announce The Turquoise Agenda, New York-based artist Kamrooz Aram’s solo exhibition at WINDOW. Please join us to toast the artist at the opening reception on Friday, May 9th from 6-8pm, as part of Tribeca Gallery Night.

The exhibition carefully considers the storefront space’s function as display. Drawing on his interest in museum design, the artist approaches the window as a public vitrine. Combining painting, sculpture and collage, he creates an interdependence between object, display and architecture, demonstrating the significance of design in affecting the interpretation of art.

Aram’s work disrupts the false opposition between ornament and abstraction, renegotiating art historical hierarchies that have relegated ornamental forms to the category of minor arts. While the artist’s practice is rooted in a commitment to painting, his exhibitions employ a variety of approaches and media, often unified by wall-painting as exhibition design.

Kamrooz Aram’s work evokes the passage of time; the evolution, persistence and survival of forms. His paintings–having undergone a process that includes drawing, erasure, redrawing, scraping down and layering paint–reveal the history of their own making. Likewise, his collages and sculptural works demonstrate how layers of time might present themselves physically in objects and images.