Summer 2003

An exhibition of works from a new series of paintings by Damian Loeb entitled Horror/Sci-Fi 1.1.9b2 will be on view at Mary Boone Gallery, Chelsea through June 28, 2003.

For this series, Damian Loeb has chosen the often undervalued genres of horror and science fiction film as subject matter for his hyper-realistic paintings.

Horror, with its mythological undertones, anchors the unknown and the fantastic in images that are familiar and realistic, lulling us into a false sense of security and then undercutting this with brief and shocking interludes of horror.

Like the horror genre, science fiction is intended to stir our emotions, our subconscious, and our mythological leanings. It's images strive to remove us from a known world, replacing it with an abstracted hyper-real one.

Inspired by the symbolic motifs of horror and sci-fi, Loeb composes new images, creating his own reality of the unreal, seamlessly interweaving the fantastic with the mundane through his characteristic, invisible brushwork.