Adults Make Kids

February 2 - March 11, 2007                           Opening Reception: Friday, February 2, 2007, 7- 9 pm

Sarah Bowen Gallery presents Canadian Artist and Illustrator Amanda Church, in her first New York gallery exhibit. Church, having published a novel with George Braziller and contributed to the international success of the band Mogwai, with her painting for the album cover Mr. Beast , is already a prodigious talent. Church's art breaches the line of graphic illustration, ceramic craftsmanship and soulful poetry. On display for the explorative and duly titled Adults Make Kids are fully developed novellas from her painted and glazed ceramic tiles as well as her lovely pencil drawings.

The intermingling of humor and sadness coupled with the intricacy of childhood imagination reflect the influence of underground comic book artist Robert Crumb's seditious views of the American mainstream. Adults Make Kids open's the audience's potential interpretation of the work by acknowledging that art, as in life, is not always linear or easily defined, just as the definitions and assumptions of what is ‘grown-up' and what is ‘child-like' are often renegotiated throughout one's lifetime.

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