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Jean-Pierre Larocque (b. 1953, Montreal where he lives and works) explores a growing diversity of subjects in this exhibition. His familiar craggy horse “structures” are included in this survey at our Long Island City Project Space, sharing space with his massive, monumental heads, his figures and several new forms: female figures and pagoda-like buildings. The latter first appeared on the backs of his horses and have since found a life of their own. The first female figures (showing a tenderness that is new to his rugged vocabulary) were premiered by the Gallery in its exhibition “Mud Ladies” at the ADAA Art Show this February alongside the work of Caro, Fontana and others. In addition, Larocque’s elegant, powerful drawings and paintings, not new but rarely seen, will also be featured. Larocque has recently been honored by having been invited to provide the inaugural exhibition for the opening of the new contemporary ceramics extension of the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art in Toronto opening in the Fall of 2005.
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