Yuval Pudik: A Predators Mohawk January 27, 2007

Yuval Pudik: Yuval Pudik "A Predators Mohwk"
January 27 – March 1, 2007

"A Predators Mohwk"
Yuval Pudik

January 27 – March 1, 2007
Opening Saturday, January 27, 2007, 7 – 9 pm

Silverman Gallery is very pleased to present Yuval Pudik's first solo exhibition, "A Predators Mohawk." Here the artist's interest in manhood merges the meticulousness of Ernst Haeckel with the likes of Joel-Peter Witkin and Claude Cahun who similarly produced provoking self-portraits often using costumes or masks as a way of exploring her own identity.

The title of this exhibition comes from the thrill of the hunt and the hunt in this instance, as celebration. For Pudik "A Predators Mohawk" is a barbarian, an animal who is depicted through the artist's self-portraiture in the midst of transformation. Haute Couture embodies the romance, expense, and excess that is fashion and has since its initial conception been a symbol of privilege. In work such as A Predators Mohawk #02 (Found Them To Be False), a delicate pencil composition of leather, ruffles and botany linger between gracefully poised and on the verge of conquest. The figure and its many parts threaten eachother equally and yet the subject is the initiator of the feud.

Charmed by the often-fetishized American muscle car "A Predator Mohawk" merges El Camino cars into the dress and body of each figure. This vehicle, which is considered half car and half truck, is Pudiks Silver and his subject a modern day lone ranger.

Yuval Pudik was born in 1978 in Israel. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles and Israel

"A Predators Mohawk" will be on view at Silverman Gallery San Francisco (2295 Third Street, cross street 20th) through March 1, 2007. Hours: Friday from 11 am – 6 pm or by appointment. For further information or reproductions please contact Jessica Silverman at Jessica@silverman-gallery.com.

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