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MORTIS DABORA neWS ReLeASe USA
Tall Tales of Death

MoRTIS DABoRA:
Tall Tales of Death

OCTOBeR 5 - OCTOBeR 31, 2002

DABORA Gallery hosts a
Halloween extravaganza
during the month of October.
A macabre and allegoric
group exhibition on death,
including 26 artists, featuring
figurative work in painting, DABoRA Gallery
photography, sculpture, 1080 Manhattan Ave.
and installation. A morbidly (betw. Eagle and Dupont)
theatrical show with 4 nights Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY 11222
The limitless bounds of viewers own, not always controllable, imaginations
of performance/musical/film 718-609-9629
compel them to visit realms that the body cannot. Dabora Gallery at 1080
events. lynda@daboragallery.com
Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint, Brooklyn encourages this.
http://www.daboragallery.com
When entering Dabora Gallery for the first time, if you are like me, you A r t i s t s i n c l u d e
are immediately swept back to that time of pubescent youth when one
is entering the haunted house at the State fair sending chills down your r AY A B e Y tA other works include John Viner’s humorously
H AW K A l F r e d s O n
spine and giving you goose pimples. It took a few seconds for my eyes to macabre painting of men dancing with
adjust after entering the dark entrance hall of the gallery from the bright B OOG i e stilettos and Butcherbirds. The knives
PA u l B O O t H
autumn sunlight. The walls are dark and the floor the color of dried blood. and the beaks of the birds resonate with
Following the long corridor to its end, one sees black curtains pulled aside i r A c O H e n each other. Nicole Pilar’s fine little drawing
c H ri s tin c O u t u r e
as if inviting the guest by some hidden and silent servant of this dark ti M O t HY c u MM in G s is reminiscent of George Groz. I always
realm. And there is Lynda Mahan standing beautiful and slender in her liked her work. And the photo by Martine
c H ri s tin A dA l l A s
dark garments with alabaster glowing skin, aquiline features, long neck M A r c d e n n i s Julien of the Russian dancer Ksenia, who
and dark hair...the “Morticia” of her “Sanctuary of Death”. She welcomes will perform at the opening on october
K At e F e n K e r
you to enjoy forbidden fruits of a macabre world with room after room of t O M G l e e s O n 5th, appears to exude an eerie and bloody
luxurious velvet Victorian couches and chairs and a bar for the living beings A n dr A s H A l A s Z scream of light. There are 26 artists in the
who may want refreshments during their abidance. M i A H A n s O n show. I wish I had the time and space to
M A r t i n e J u l i e n talk about each one of them.
This is what Dabora¹s current show is all about...Death. And it is also a show K r i s t Y K n i G H t
of some of the most superlative artists. Among the wonderful paintings J A s O n l e W i s We must also mention the curatorial art which
in this show is one by Ray Abeyta, whose large format is definitely in the A l e X A n dr i A l i M P e r t is so impressively apparent. Lynda Mahan
manner of the 18th Century Spanish/Mexican painters. He is master of the lY n dA M A H A n could have made an excellent professional
his medium and his art and would have been recognized as such in the 18th e r i c P e rV u K H i n interior decorator. Her creation of macabre
Century. The work represents a naked Indian priest dressed only in his plumed n i c O l e P i l A r ambience in lighting and the uncluttered
headdress and pissing blood into bowl of skulls and bones. It is a powerful n e i l s WA A B Victorian decor (including stuffed animal
and technically superb allegorical piece. Next to it is a painting by Hawk F r A n K V e r s A c e heads and wild boar carpets) combines
Alfredson, again excellent in the execution of an obscured face on a well M i G u e l V i l l A l O B O s with the high quality art and is a tribute
JO n At H A n V i n e r to her taste. I should also mention she has
executed standing figure, as if fate had smudged his soul as a punishment.
Alfredson¹s work has the eerie and uncanny feeling one gets from the work e r i c W H i t e a fine miniature work of her own in the
A l e X A n d e r Z A K H A r O V
of that greatest of British contemporary artists Francis Bacon. show...a portrait of her former boyfriend,
head only...severed and resting on a platter
one of my favorite artists in Williamsburg is Alex- like John the Baptist. Best not to dally lightly
andra Limpert. I have watched her work develop with this Morticia!
over the years in several shows. Her sculpture here
at Dabora is her trademark skeletal steel form, This has to be one of the best gallery shows
in this case a winged goddess about seven feet PAuL BooTH “VoICES” for the october season in Williamsburg/
high, lacking head like an ancient Greek or Roman Greenpoint, celebrating the harvest of
statue. She is the “Winged Victory of Death” for living things and big sleep of winter to
the purpose of this show. It is an impressive and come...for us all.
technically superlative piece. It has a definite pres-
ence, well placed by Lynda Mahan in a dark corner
allowing for a surprised guest to come abreast of
it. I predict that this sculptress will be making her JASoN LEWIS “SEVEN DEADLY SINS”
mark in the art world of our time.

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