Press Release

Pinaree Sanpitak: Quietly Floating

February 1, 2010

Pinaree Sanpitak is one of the most respected artists working in Southeast Asia today and has been a powerful voice in the Thai art scene since the 1980s. Demonstrating from the outset an intentionally feminine sensibility in her artistic practice, Sanpitak has injected Thailand’s burgeoning contemporary art scene with a strong female presence. Mining a language of forms that is emphatically personal and yet simultaneously universal, Sanpitak productively draws on the artistic traditions of East and West to continually push her work beyond such limiting binaries. A central focus of her work is the female breast, which she relates to imagery of the natural world and to the iconic form of the Buddhist shrine. She works in many media, including painting, drawing, sculpture, textiles, performance, and culinary arts.

Quietly Floating marks her first solo exhibition in New York and features a series of large, monochromatic paintings (some done in metallic silver) of breast and cloud forms. These forms also appear in a remarkable group of intimate works on Japanese paper, and in an installation of large, cast aluminum mirrors. Sanpitak’s work has been featured in numerous museum exhibitions in Asia and Europe during the past twenty years, and she has participated in major biennials around the world, including the Busan Biennale in Korea; the Biennale d’Arte Contemporanea in Italy; the Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale in Japan; and the Asia-Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art in Australia.

Exhibition Dates: March 4 – April 17, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 11, 6-8 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 10 AM – 6 PM

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