Spencer Brownstone

Jeff Gabel

20 Jan - 24 Feb 2007

Jeff Gabel
January 20th - February 24th, 2007
Opening Saturday January 20th, 6-8pm

Jeff Gabel makes small-scale pencil drawings that feature both real and imaginary people, and often revolve around routine day-to-day embarrassments, best-forgotten college experiences, or the artist’s unhealthy obsession with the rock band Kiss.

From this unlikely milieu, the artist mines gold. Typically, Gabel’s drawings feature small sketches of people and faces, appended with a line of text that explains who they are, or imagines what they were thinking at the time they were observed. It’s here, in the artist’s knack for finding moments in the everyday that transcend the banal, that his work achieves a kind of twisted timelessness.


Jeff Gabel at Spencer Brownstone Gallery, 2004
Installation View
 

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