Babcock Galleries

 

Marylyn Dintenfass: Parallel Park

 

ORIGINAL WORKS FOR DINTENFASS’ PARALLEL PARK ON VIEW AT BABCOCK GALLERIES

Marylyn Dintenfass’ newest installation, Parallel Park, is a site-specific 30,000 square foot façade composed of 23 individual panels, each 33 feet high by 23 feet wide, for the Lee County Justice Center in Fort Myers, Florida. Dintenfass has created more than 25 large-scale installations including works for the Port Authority Bus Terminal in New York, Connecticut State Superior Courthouse, Baltimore Federal Financial Building, Ben Gurion University in Israel, and Tajimi Middle School in Japan.

Dintenfass is an experiential artist whose variously transparent imagery is a metaphor for her own perceptual encounters of themes and subjects. In this case Dintenfass’ long-standing lexicon of symbols is emblematic of her life-long love affair with automobiles and their dynamic power, speed, look, feel, smell, and sound: their total sensual impact on life. Dintenfass has always been a narrative artist, but the power of abstraction in her work is an appeal to the viewer’s imagination and visceral reactions.

The Parallel Park installation will soon be completed on the four façades of architect Kevin Williams’ free standing parking center. Parallel Park’s remarkable scale and Dintenfass’ brilliant color and dynamic images will make the building a landmark for the Florida west coast region. In a recent ARTnews review, Meredith Mendelsohn wrote that Dintenfass’ work “is entirely her own” and in the “translucent washy layers…the artist’s hand is always visible….” Lilly Wei has noted that the artist’s work is “a bracing example of an experiential painting for the present,” and in Parallel Park Dintenfass puts her experiential imagery on view as never before.

Dintenfass’ original works, on which the commission is based, are on view at Babcock Galleries through June 11, 2010, and will subsequently be a part of a larger exhibition at the Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Edison College in Fort Myers in January 2011.

  • April 8 - June 11, 2010