Daniela Steinfeld / Peter Friedl

Opening reception: Saturday, September 9, 6 – 8pm

Sara Meltzer Gallery will present a selection of Daniela Steinfeld’s most recent works. Large scale and performative based, this latest series, as in several previous bodies of work, incorporates the artist as her own subject. Posed against a white background, Steinfeld presents herself in an array of emotional postures. Her body becomes a sculptural device malleable for the bizarre situations that unfold. Both humorous and ironic, these new images incorporate found objects: a corrugated cardboard Krups appliance box that the artist collapses herself into, a Persian rug that appears stretched in celebration with two feet jutting out from each side, a mound of foam both tackled and embraced, among others. Many aspects of personal emotion are conveyed ranging from serious introspection to gregarious playfulness.

German born, Steinfeld is based in Dusseldorf, and is a graduate of the Kunstakademie. She recently had a solo exhibition at Sara Meltzer Gallery in Room 02, this past May. Additionally, she has had solo shows at Vous Etes Ici in Amsterdam and at Konrad Fisher Galerie. Steinfeld has exhibited in museum shows throughout Europe including the exhibition, Schnitt 2000 which was presented at the Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen in Dusseldorf. She also had work in Jeder Z’n Eigen Voetbal at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam, The Netherlands and was included in RaumZeitBildRaum curated by Ute Eskildsen which was presented at the Folkwang in Essen, Germany and traveled to Goteborgs Konstmuseet, Hasselblad Center, Göteborg, Sweden, and Finnish Photographic Museum, Helsinki, Finland. She completed an artist’s residency at The Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas in 1997 and received a D.A.A.D Grant from the German government that same year.

Room 02: Sara Meltzer Gallery will present Austrian artist, Peter Friedl’s most recent work, a neon sign installation reading 2001. Mounted on the wall and glowing in neon, 2001, as in all of Friedl’s work, exists as both a universal and personal message. Context is everything; the complexity of the message is layered. As these numbers light up before us the meaning becomes altered by one’s individual experiences and the unexpected context of the sign depicted as an object in an art gallery.

Born in Austria, Peter Friedl currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His work has been exhibited throughout Europe including solo exhibitions at Museum Moderner Kunst in Passau, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Galerie Erna Hecey, Luxemburg, and Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, among others. He was included in documenta X in Kassel and, in the United States his work was included in 1999 presented by P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center in New York, as well as in Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures curated by Philippe Vergne and exhibited at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.

Video Wall: Sara Meltzer Gallery will present Kingsway Trilogy by Alix Lambert.

ROOM 01: Daniela Steinfeld
ROOM 02: Peter Friedl
Video Wall: Alix Lambert