Yvette Drury Dubinsky: Cité des Arts by Bruno David Gallery

YVETTE DRURY DUBINSKY Cité des Arts

YVETTE DRURY DUBINSKY: Cité des Arts April 20 - May 19, 2007 Bruno David Gallery 3721 Washington Boulevard Saint Louis, 63108 Missouri, U.S.A. info@brunodavidgallery.com www.brunodavidgallery.com Director: Bruno L. David This catalog was published by Bruno David Gallery Publications in conjunction with the exhibition Yvette Drury Dubinsky: Cité des Arts Editor: Bruno L. David Catalog Designer: Yoko Kiyoi Designer Assistant: Sage A. David and Claudia R. David Printed in USA All works courtesy of Bruno David Gallery and Yvette Drury Dubinsky Cover Image: Yvette Drury Dubinsky Thai Penicillin (detail), 2007 Digital Chromogenic Print faced into plexiglas mounted on aluminum 30 x 100 inches (76.20 x 254 cm) Copyright © 2007 Bruno David Gallery, Inc. and Yvette Drury Dubinsky All Right Reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form without the written permission of Bruno David Gallery, Inc.

Contents

Essay by Harriet Stone Afterword by Bruno L. David Checklist of the Exhibition Biography

PARIS PALIMPSEST Essay by Harriet Stone 2

A palimpsest is a manuscript, most commonly made of papyrus or parchment, on which one writes again after an initial writing is erased, through washing or scraping. Though she builds her work through images rather than words, Yvette Drury Dubinsky effectively traces and retraces her routes through Paris to capture its patterns and its colors. Three media--watercolor monotype, photography, and digital scanning-record her impressions during a three-month stay at the Cité Internationale des Arts (International City of the Arts) in the heart of the French capital. The enchantment of Paris beckons, and one can be satisfied with the city’s renowned beauty by simply visiting its monuments. For an added touch, one can memorialize the occasion with portraits of various family members in front of the monuments visited. But to those to whom Paris really speaks, those truly caught in the spell of its River Seine and the distinctive architecture of the buildings that border it, the magic of the city does not emerge from the sites that mark the tourist’s initial tour. What Paris conveys to the creative imagination is not Notre Dame, not the elegance of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, and not even the Eiffel Tower, but rather those things most closely with the Parisians who walk the grand boulevards and navigate the narrow streets, who take the métro, and who buy their produce at the local market. Dubinsky discovered this Paris as she traveled back and forth to the laboratory where she made her digital prints, to the department-store-thatsells-everything for the plexiglas she used to make the monotypes, and to the factory where she bought the steel backings to hang the finished images. Crossing the city again and again on foot and on the métro, she experienced Paris as a nexus of interconnecting streets and rail lines. She has translated these grids into a series of watercolors that record layer upon layer of sunlight on the Seine. The water takes on different hues at different times of day, and Dubinsky, in ways that pay homage to Monet and Bonnard, captures how one hour’s light is washed away, replaced by another, as the river cuts its path through the city. The Paris métro is a world apart, yet a world that remains intimately connected to the Parisian way of life. In this vast underground, it is virtually impossible to be lost more than momentarily, since familiar maps, with their distinctive color-coded markings, guide passengers from one station to the next. Taking the subway, and often replicating the same route day after day, Dubinsky produced a compelling photo series that records the comings of goings of métro cars and métro riders as they flow, anonymously, in the artificial light of the stations. The deep stairwells, the hushed passengers, and the motion of the cars caught in the blur of the camera all register how the city reinvents itself every day along the same tracks. The digital scanner, the modern-day palimpsest machine, reads page after page of texts or illustrations. Dubinsky, however, scans neither texts nor images, but rather vegetables--exquisite, vibrant vegetables from the Paris markets. One look at these images, and viewer knows that Dubinsky has captured French life at its most elemental. Artichokes have fuchsia and magenta tips foreign to their American counterparts. Garlic bulbs, too, have a violet striation and a thick stalk that marks them as European. Fresh almonds, which appear in the markets from June to August, are unfamiliar to us here. Dubinsky captures their fetching green, velour-like shells, right down to the fuzz of their outer envelopes,

as she does the delicate ripple of the girolles, the chanterelle mushrooms. But it is the fèves--the fava beans--arranged one next to the other like so many little streets or rail lines that remind us most suggestively how Dubinsky has captured in these images, too, the pathways of her discovery of the City of Light. She followed the fava bean’s long, leathery pods directly through the popular Belleville market. In this eclectic space, colors stand out among the produce as among the produce-seekers. Often wearing native dress, new immigrants from North Africa and Asia mingle with bargainseekers and gastronomes of all stripes hungry for a piece of the world’s harvest. Paris captured in a fava bean. Dubinsky’s experience is not that of Proust’s Madeleine, the shell-shaped little sponge cake which, when famously dunked in a cup of tea, evoked a host of involuntary memories. But Dubinsky’s fèves nonetheless remind us of how objects, once captured and celebrated by an artist, can contain a world of paths taken, and retaken. Dubinsky studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Santa Reparata Print studio in Florence, The Maine Photographic Workshop and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She has taught at Washington University, The University of Chicago, and at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill on Cape Cod. Examples of her work form part of the collections of The St. Louis Art Museum, The Margaret Harwell Art Museum, as well as numerous corporate and private collections around the country and abroad. A graduate of the Washington University school of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Art, Dubinsky has exhibited her work frequently in St. Louis and in Truro and Provincetown, Massachusetts, as well as in numerous galleries throughout United States. Most recently, she exhibited her Paris work at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris. She also collaborated at another time in Paris with German composer Axel Frank Singer, whose incantatory composition also accompanies the Métro series video in St. Louis. —Harriet Stone (April 2007)

Harriet Stone is a writer and professor of romance languages & comparative literature in Arts & Sciences at Washington University in St. Louis and a 2006 faculty fellow. Stone received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Brown University in 1982. She is the author of The Classical Model: Literature and Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century France (1996), as well as Royal DisClosure: Problematics of Representation in French Classical Tragedy (1987). This essay is one in a series of introductions to the gallery’s exhibitions written by fellow gallery artists and other professionals.

Afterword by Bruno L. David

I am pleased to exhibit Cité des Arts by multimedia artist Yvette Drury Dubinsky in the main gallery and in the New Media Room. Mrs. Dubinsky presents monotypes on paper, large chromogenic prints of organic forms and a new multi-media installation of photographs (and music) made in France on the Paris Metro. All three bodies of work were inspired during her three months in France. The musical collaboration was done with Axel Singer, a composer from Munich, Germany while Dubinsky and Singer were both residents at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in the Spring of 2006. This collaboration was initially presented in a concert at the Cité des Arts in Paris in October. Yvette Drury Dubinsky has exhibited her work widely, throughout the US and in France. She is a graduate of the Washington University in St. Louis, the School of Arts and Sciences, the Graduate Schools of Arts and Sciences and the Graduate School of Art. She has also studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Santa Reparata Print studio in Florence, The Maine Photographic Workshop, and The Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, Massachusetts. She has taught at Washington University, The University of Chicago and at the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill, in Truro, Massachusetts. Her work is in the collection of The St. Louis Art Museum, The Margaret Harwell Art Museum and many other corporate and private collections around the country and abroad.

Checklist of the exhibition and Images

Houblons, 2007

Digital Chromogenic Print faced into plexiglas mounted on aluminum 60 x 50 inches (152.40 x 127 cm), Edition of 10 8

Asperges Blanches, 2007

Digital Chromogenic Print faced into plexiglas mounted on aluminum 30 x 38 inches (76.20 x 96.50 cm), Edition of 10 10

Artichauts, 2007

Digital Chromogenic Print faced into plexiglas mounted on aluminum 30 x 38 inches (76.20 x 96.50 cm), Edition of 10 12

Amandes, 2007

Digital Chromogenic Print faced into plexiglas mounted on aluminum 38 x 30 inches (96.50 x 76.20 cm), Edition of 10 14

Ails, 2007

Digital Chromogenic Print faced into plexiglas mounted on aluminum 38 x 30 inches (96.50 x 76.20 cm), Edition of 10 16

Girolles, 2007

Digital Chromogenic Print faced into plexiglas mounted on aluminum 30 x 38 inches (76.20 x 96.50 cm), Edition of 10 18

Haricots Vert, 2007

Digital Chromogenic Print faced into plexiglas mounted on aluminum 38 x 30 inches (96.50 x 76.20 cm), Edition of 10 20

FĂ¨ves, 2007

Digital Chromogenic Print faced into plexiglas mounted on aluminum 30 x 38 inches (76.20 x 96.50 cm), Edition of 10 22

Capsaican Conductors, 2004

Digital Chromogenic Print faced into plexiglas mounted on aluminum 38 x 30 inches (96.50 x 76.20 cm), Edition of 5 24

CitĂ¨ des Arts (Installation View), 2007

PS 5, 2006

Monotype on paper 10-3/4 x 10-3/4 inches (27.30 x 27.30 cm) 30

PS 4, 2006

Monotype on paper 10-3/4 x 10-3/4 inches (27.30 x 27.30 cm) 32

PC 1, 2006

Monotype on paper 10-3/4 x 10-3/4 inches (27.30 x 27.30 cm) 34

IT, 2007

Monotype on paper, 21-1/2 x 29-3/4 inches (54.61 x 75.56 cm) 36

TB 3, 2006

Monotype on paper 10-3/4 x 10-3/4 inches (27.30 x 27.30 cm) 38

PC 5, 2006

Monotype on paper 10-3/4 x 10-3/4 inches (27.30 x 27.30 cm) 40

PM 2, 2006

Monotype on paper 10-3/4 x 10-3/4 inches (27.30 x 27.30 cm) 42

PSA 2, 2006

Monotype on paper 10-3/4 x 10-3/4 inches (27.30 x 27.30 cm) 44

P/M 1, 2006

Monotype on paper 10-3/4 x 10-3/4 inches (27.30 x 27.30 cm) 46

CitĂ¨ des Arts (Installation View), 2007

YVETTE DRURY DUBINSKY Lives and works in St. Louis, Missouri and Truro, Massachusetts

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 2007 2006 2005 2003 2001 2000 1999 1994 1992 1991 1989

Bruno David Gallery, Citè des Arts: Mixed Media, St. Louis, MO, April Citè Internationale des Arts Gallerie, Formes Biologiques, Paris, France Elliot Smith Gallery, Alternatives, St. Louis, MO COA Art Gallery, Antioxidants and Alternatives, Truro, MA Bonsack Gallery, Cuba, St. Louis, MO Canyon Ranch Gallery, Antioxidant Vegetables and Fruits, Tucson, AZ Bonsack Gallery, Antioxidants Images: Works on Paper, St. Louis, MO Fleishman-Hillard Inc., Antioxidants Images: Works on Paper, St. Louis, MO Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, Works on/of Paper, St. Louis, MO Sazama Gallery, Contacts, Chicago, Il Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, New Work, St. Louis, MO Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Tactile Exteriors, Poplar Bluff, MO Martin Schweig Gallery, Surfaces, St. Louis, MO Meramec Theatre Gallery, Prints, St. Louis, MO

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 1995 1994 1993

Group Exhibition, The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO Group Show, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO The Harbor, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA Absolutely Abstract, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO The Box (From Duchamp to Horn), Ubu Gallery, New York, NY The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO Group Exhibition, (California Society of Printmakers), Triton Museum, Santa Clara, CA New Work by Gallery Artists, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO Group Exhibition, Chicago International Art Forms, Chicago, IL Gallery Artists, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL A compassionate Response to AIDS. The Design Center, St. Louis, The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY Art St. Louis IX, Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, MO

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued) 2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996

Four Aces, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO ArtsDesire, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri. Rivulet, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO Metro, looped DVD projection, 3 minutes, Video by Yvette Drury Dubinsky and music composed by Axel Singer, Bruno David Gallery (New Media Room), St. Louis, MO, April Overview, Bruno David gallery, St. Louis, MO Monoprint Projects, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA Member Juried, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA Inaugural Exhibition, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO Women Only, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, curated by Bruno David, April 16 - May 22, St. Louis, MO Group Show, Photo District Gallery, NY, NY Twenty (Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, curated by Bruno David, St. Louis Earth, Landscape and The Pamet, Ethan Cohen/Arthaus, Truro, MA SCOPE Art Fair, (With Ethan Cohen Fine Art, NY, NY) Miami Beach, FL Group Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA Regarding Objects, The Sheldon Gallery, St. Louis, MO and Innsbrook Conference Center, MO Group Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA Group Show, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis New Group Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA Sun Works, The Art Institute of Boston, Boston, MA Prints, Triton Museum, Santa Clara, California Contemporary Print Expo, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO The People Project, St. Louis, MO Group Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA Of Self and World, St. Louis Art Museum and Innsbrook Estates, curated by Olivia Las Gonzales, St. Louis, MO Art, St. Louis Repertory Theatre, St. Louis, MO Group Exhibition, Provincetown Art Association and Museum, Provincetown, MA Group Show, Hunt Gallery, St. Louis, MO Group Exhibition, Gallery 551, San Francisco, CA Group Show, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art. St. Louis, MO Group Show, East End Gallery, Provincetown, MA St. Louis, The City Series, Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, Cedar Rapids, IA Group Exhibition, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet, MA NAWBO Awards Exhibition, St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO Group Exhibition, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO Group Show, Cherry Stone Gallery, Wellfleet MA Sharing Images, Maryville University Gallery, St. Louis, MO

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (continued) 1992 1991 1990 1988

Summer Salon, Sazama Gallery, Chicago, IL US-Norway Exchange, Galleri Norske Grafikere, Oslo, Norway 510 Compton Show, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO LAPS 93, Los Angeles, CA Crossroads, Art Festival, St. Louis, MO The Human Form, Metropolitan Square Building, St. Louis, MO Picture This, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, MO VII Harwell Mail In Show, Margaret Harwell Art Museum, Poplar Bluff, MO Art St. Louis VII, Art Saint Louis Gallery, St. Louis, MO The Indomitable Spirit, The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO ACLU Biennial, Randall Gallery, St. Louis, MO National Exposures 90, Winston-Salem, NC Art St. Louis VI, Art St. Louis Gallery, St. Louis, MO Portrait, St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis, MO Thesis Exhibition, WU Gallery of Art, Washington University School of Art, St. Louis, MO Photography, St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis, MO Intimate Translations, The Hunt Gallery, Webster University, St. Louis, MO National Aperture 4, Associated Artists gallery, Winston-Salem, NC Prints and Drawings, St. Louis Artists Guild, St. Louis, MO Contemporary Women Artists VI, Bixby Gallery, St. Louis, MO

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