UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
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Liliane Tomasko: evening windApril 1 - July 24, 2022
Curated by Faye Fleming Liliane Tomasko: Evening Wind, takes its title from Edward Hopper’s 1921 masterful etching of a woman who has awoken in the cross-hatched black of night, as if from a bad dream. The bed is a recurring trope that Edward Hopper (1882-1967) returned throughout his career. “This is also the central site of inspiration for this exhibition and an entry point for Tomasko’s excavations of dreams that reach towards an understanding of the very nature of being,” says exhibition curator Faye Fleming, projects director of the Sean Scully Studio in Tappan, NY. While different in their outward form from the paintings of Hopper, Tomasko's works offer a similar exploration of self. Hopper was once asked what he was striving for in his work, and he replied, “I suppose it’s just ME.” This exploration of self is particularly vivid in his paintings with a bed in domestic or anonymous hotel interiors. In Evening Wind, Hopper also lets us see the bedsheets in their tangled state, as a slept-in bed, with the creases representing a nocturnal journey as individual and as intimate as the lined whorls of a fingerprint.
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