Peter Drake: Cul de Sac Opens: Friday, November 4th thru Saturday, January 7th Preview Opening: Friday, November 4th 5 – 8pm Reception for artist: Saturday, November 5th 6-9pm Linda Warren Gallery is proud to present Peter Drake’s solo exhibition – Cul de Sac – a formal march into the land of suburbia – where ideals of perfection, nostalgic notions, exaggerated realities and incongruous absurdities abound. Drake’s formal playground is the “good ol’ times” era of Post WWII through the start of Watergate, a period loaded with imagery both aesthetically appealing and emotionally complex that moreover points to a perceived normalcy …

Jeremy Long: New Paintings September 9th-October 29th, 2005 Opening Reception Friday September 9th, 6-9pm Jeremy Long’s paintings are devoted to the joy of observation, the earnest investigation of knowing reality through depiction and an unabashed demonstration of the passion to paint. In New Paintings at Linda Warren Gallery, Long pays respect to the lineage of grand scale and plein air painting. Employing size to evoke a sense of awe, visual wonderment and a spectacle for perceiving, the monumental works on display portray tangibly scaled figures within the confines of the artist s immediate environment  be it the studio or …

James Rizzo: The House That Joe Built Saturday, July 23 thru Saturday, September 3 Reception for artist: Saturday, July 23 6-9pm Linda Warren Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of James Rizzo: The House that Joe Built. The struggle to make sense of our fading stories and archive our past realities as we search to comprehend our present is at the heart of James Rizzo’s new body of work: The House that Joe Built. Rizzo makes work for each moment that gives reason for his unique self (who he is today). Using family relationships to find footing in the …

Stephen Lacy, Zach Taylor, Jonathan Waterbury: New Works Opens June 3rd thru July 16th, 2005 Reception for the artists: Friday, June 3rd 6-9pm Linda Warren Gallery is proud to announce the opening of Steve Lacy, Zach Taylor and Jonathan Waterbury: New Work. Observable in each of these three uniquely talented artists work is a common tactic used by many contemporary artists¬–appropriation–taking and re-presenting or recontextualizing original imagery. Whether or not the image is recognizable or may in fact be stored in the viewer’s memory with preexisting associations is not necessary for the works to communicate. Some are purposefully obscure and …

Amy Bennett: Stories April 8–May 28, 2005 Reception for the artist: Friday April 8, 6-9pm Linda Warren Gallery is proud to present the first solo exhibition of a talented, young emerging artist: Amy Bennett. For the past few years, Bennett has been painting meticulously carried out, multidimensional depictions of domestic environments. Included in the cross-sectioned aerial views of apartments and bisected looks at large family homes are the moments and dramas of their fictional inhabitants. Stories features this previous work alongside her most recent endeavors: paintings of a single family living in a remote countryside home, each work derived from …