Shaking The Habitual
Michael Bevilacqua/ James Busby/ Jeff Elrod

Kravets Wehby Gallery is pleased to present “Shaking the Habitual” A three-person show featuring the work of Michael Bevilacqua, James Busby, and Jeff Elrod. These artists cleanse, fold, and manipulate the idea of the modernist central image in painting. They are dealing with the everyday pixelated fuzz, the chop and screw of information and culture with the desire to drown out the bombardment of imagery.

Jeff Elrod, in his new paintings, softens and erases the image in a single expanse of muteness. There is no beginning or end to his visual profundity.

James Busby has expanded the ideas of Minimalism using techniques of drawing and grid making to create mirror like surfaces pushing them into depths of extreme space and fluidity.

Michael Bevilacqua has evolved from a very graphic approach to an all out assault use of spray paint to produce his canvases. Like Kandinsky; music fuels the paintings. The artist’s evolution is not unlike the stylistic shift in music from Punk to Electronica, an evaporation of descriptive lines to the ethereal.

Njideka Akunyili, Firelei Baez, Cake, Sydney Chastain-Chapman, Caitlin Cherry, Oasa DuVerney, Langdon Graves, Yashua Klos, Michelle Matson, Aaron Romine, Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum, Aya Uekawa, Nick Van Woert, Saya Woolfalk

Thordis Adalsteinsdottir, Jean-Christian Bourcart, Juan Cespedes, Arturo Elizondo, Manuel Esnoz, Gelatin, Torben Giehler, Lena Gieseke, Kineko Ivic, Roger Kelly, Kocheisen & Hullmann, Michel Majerus, Gerhard Mayer, Moriceau & Mrzyk, Yasumasa Morimura, Wangeshi Mutu, Nicky Nodjoumi, Shigeyoshi Ohi, Jon Pylypchuk, James Rielly, Victor Rodriguez, Christof Schmidberger, Ian Scott, Michael Stevenson, Peter Stauss, Hiroshi Sunairi, Pascal Marthine Tayou, Wolfgang Tillmans, Michael Timpson, Lily van der Stokker, Gillian Wearing, curated by Norman Dubrow

Philip Akkerman, Irina Alimanestianu, Renee Cox, Benjamin Edwards, Jeff Elrod, Gajin Fujita, James Gobel, Leon Golub, Ralph Goings, Wayne Gonzales, Pahl Hluchan, Julia Jacquette, Chris Johanson, Mark Kostabi, Kate Kuharic, Attila Richard Lukacs, John Newsom, Nicky Nodjoumi, Robert Overby, Erik Parker, Martha Rosler, Alison Saar, Sir IC Scott, Becky Smith, Jock Sturges, Marnie Weber, David Wojnarowicz, Martin Wong, curated by Norman Dubrow

Gregory Crewdson, Jeff Elrod, Gajin Fujita, Torben Giehler, James Gobel, Julia Jacquette, Kurt Kauper, Vik Muniz, Catherine Opie, Erik Parker, Jack Pierson, Alexis Rockman, Aaron Romine, Lisa Ruyter, Jessica Stockholder and Fred Tomaselli, curated by Norman Dubrow