![]() In All-Nite Cabinet, a bookshelf holds within it a landscape dotted with glowing castles and far off temples, as a Luden’s cough drop box, toy figurines, baked goods, and friendly insects at similar scale also sit within it, functioning as glyphs that take on talismanic power. Exquisite details born out of immense care and concentration add to the feeling of infinite expanse, implying worlds exist within worlds so immense and interconnected that narrative spins out in all directions, unable or unwilling to be contained. ![]() Hermetic drive and meditative persistence characterize the relationship of artist as maker from autonomous to conduit and back again, making permeating the personal through to allegory and myth possible. While Styer’s works share a rhythm of visual organization, calligraphic lettering, stylized adornment, and windows as portals to other or adjacent realms with their medieval counterparts, the artist’s centrifuge of texts and images move beyond narrative as moralizing device to offer only soulfully palpable ideas that glow and shimmer on a visible horizon just out of reach. Works conjure the power of familiarity by tangibly linking us between distant and near pasts, through our velocitous present, and toward wildly imaginative futures.Īs the exhibition title references, recent works use Books of hours, a popular style of surviving illuminated manuscript that characteristically guides through daily prayers, reflections, and meditations, as both formal inspiration and point of departure. In Letters from the Black Hours, Benjamin Styer mines and weaves together idiosyncratic selections from his vast library of established visual references, then collages and re-presents them as harmonious offerings to the viewer. The exhibition is the artist’s second solo presentation with the gallery, and will be installed in our Viewing Room from September 16 - October 21, 2023. Moskowitz Bayse is pleased to present Letters from the Black Hours, an exhibition of new paintings by Benjamin Styer.
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