Good Naked (New York NY) is pleased to present:
TIME TO LOVE // A two-person exhibition of works by
Liz Ainslie
Zebadiah Keneally
CLOSING & ARTIST TALK // SUNDAY, OCTOBER 16 // 5 - 7 P
72 Allen Street, New York NY 10002
Good Naked (New York NY) is pleased to present TIME TO LOVE, a two-person exhibition of works by Liz Ainslie & Zebadiah Keneally. The exhibition will open on Friday, September 9th from 6-8pm.
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In TIME TO LOVE Ainslie & Keneally take up romantic tropes alike in their approach to line and figuration. For this exhibition both artists painted site-specific murals using distinct visual vocabularies. Their works are playful in calligraphy and storied in reference to past and present wonders. A selection of individual drawings and paintings are available online.
Zebadiah Keneally’s mural describes three characters embodying vast forces - the clock (time), the heart (love), and the earth (life). Admittedly tongue in cheek in his attempt to flatten these epic structures into 2D forms - Keneally is devoted to bringing warmth to each figure and in doing so making more manageable the all-too-common pull between feeling alive/connected and feeling constrained by time.
In Liz Ainslie’s work abstractions are formed via abbreviations, clipped motion, and interrupted horizons. Her visual vocabulary is derived from the memory of momentary perceptions. In her mural, Outermost In, Ainslie references hand painted signs with a pastel palette and ancient interior wall paintings from Herculaneum and Pompeii in her 3-panel composition. The dark panels on either side suggest a night shadow encroaching upon an idyllic central celebration.
Both artists invite us to take pleasure in their illustrative moves and slow down, perhaps even twist our modes and pace of looking. In Ainslie’s description of a perceptual experience with art she reflects, “Through the painter’s work of transmuting memory into vision, the picture took on a new set of rules, a skewed environment that I momentarily accepted. This is the space I aim to explore, an arena of impossibly situated items.”
Time to sleep. Time to eat. Time to work. Time to work. Time to snooze. Time to train. Time to sit. Time to wait. Time to move. Time for you. Time for me. Time to love. Time to love? Time to love?? God is time. On my side. Wait, wait, wait! Time to love??? Yes indeed it’s time to love, my friends, and boy do we all need it.
Come stay a while and find a corner that makes your mouth curl up. It’s TIME TO LOVE.
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Liz Ainslie (b. 1978) is a painter living in Brooklyn, NY. Ainslie received an MFA from Tyler School of Art in 2004 and a BFA from Alfred University in 2001. She has had solo exhibitions at Transmitter Gallery and Airplane in Bushwick, Brooklyn, Creon Gallery in Manhattan and The Cohen Gallery at Alfred University. Her work has been included in shows at Station Independent Projects, SARDINE, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Orgy Park, Ground Floor Gallery, Outlet Fine Art, Centotto, Parallel Art Space, Small Black Door, and A.I.R. Gallery, Vox Populi, BCB Fine Art, and Gallerie Kritiku, Prague, Czech Republic. Her work has been reviewed or featured in Art Maze Mag, Maake Magazine, Giornale Dell' Arte, ArtCal Zine, and The GC Advocate. Interviews with the artist can be found online at Maake Magazine, Pencil in the Studio, and #fffffff Walls. Ainslie is a Co-director of Underdonk gallery in Brooklyn, was a visiting artist at Trestle Projects in 2018, a faculty resident at School of the Alternative, 2017, a resident artist at Millay Colony for the Arts, 2011 and at Atlantic Center for the Arts, 2006.
Zebadiah Keneally (b.1984), also known as Hamburger Vampire, is an interdisciplinary artist based in New York City, his drawings offset by painting sculpture, video, performance and book projects. When asked to describe his work he says, “Lunch is very important.” His intricate vignettes use metaphor, humor, and symbolism to activate our capacity for connection, compassion and understanding. Zebadiah presented his first solo show in 2016 and has published his drawings with a long list of independent publishers. His work can also be found in the collections of the MoMA Library, the Thomas J. Watson Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the New York Public Library Special Collections. Apartamento published his debut graphic novel, All the Things I Know, in 2022.
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