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1 kurt knobelsdorf knobelsdorf catalog.indd 1 9/21/09 9:46:52 PM

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5 steven harvey fine art projects & Fred Bancroft present URT NOBELSDORF n Paintings October 1- October 31, 2009 coleman bancroft llc 35 east 67th street new york, ny knobelsdorf catalog.indd 5 9/21/09 9:46:53 PM

published on the occasion of the exhibition: urt nobelsdorf: Paintings at Coleman Bancroft llc 35 east 67th street new york, ny 10065 914-419-1799 October 1-October 31, 2009 catalog and exhibition

6 published on the occasion of the exhibition: urt nobelsdorf: Paintings at Coleman Bancroft llc 35 east 67th street new york, ny October 1-October 31, 2009 catalog and exhibition produced by: steven harvey fine art projects 780 riverside drive, #5aa new york, ny printed at PS Print in an edition of 500 designed by shfap with john haubrich shfap 6 Cover: Strawberry Hill, 2006, oil on panel, 8 x 8 Half title page: Fairmont and Girard, 2008, oil on panel, 6 x 8 (detail) Facing title page: Schuykill House, 2008, oil on panel, 8 x 7 7/8 Rear cover:: Arby, 2008, oil on panel, 8 x 8 knobelsdorf catalog.indd 6 9/21/09 9:46:57 PM

7 Back-Up/ Chris Wilcha When will the seemingly endless inventory of found photographs dry up? With looming eventuality, the family photo albums, real estate photographs, casting agency head shots, corporate portraiture and every imaginable form of cast-off printed photography that currently overflows on thrift store shelves, in estate auction lots and at flea markets and garage sales will be replaced by permanently frozen hard drives, those sleek but useless data coffins, filled with unrecoverable JPEGS. Have you backed up your digital photos lately? urt nobelsdorf paints from these found analog artifacts or photos he has taken himself. The myth persists that photographs have the power to steal our souls but nobelsdorf s paintings have the opposite, restorative effect. While the amateur snapshots he uses clinically archive what a family member or lover looked like at a particular moment in time, nobelsdorf s paintings imbue his anonymous photographic source material with the feeling of deeply lived experience. Like the now extinct FotoMats where we dropped off all of that film to be processed and printed, nobelsdorf seems to paint obsolescence itself. Not only does his viscous and layered application of paint and the distressed surfaces of his canvases make the present tense deliquesce, but he ll occasionally show his hand, as in the post-collegiate still life of a prematurely period piece scanner, desktop computer and halogen light, which are likely bound for a third world e-waste dump. And many of his paintings are rendered in Polaroid and odachrome-ish hues, two recently discontinued film stocks whose vibrant, contrasty images seem to define the visual texture and color of memory for people born between the 1950s and 1980s. There s an implied soundtrack to nobelsdorf s paintings. You can hear the needle crackle and pop over the blistering but meditative dub of African Head Charge s Off The Beaten Track or the classic break beat in the middle of Tony Avalon and the Belairs Sexy Coffee Pot, each image evoking a scavenged sonic gem. His paintings of houses and sometimes banal urban architecture echo the functional neutrality of location scouting photos for an unmade independent film yet simultaneously swirl with the messy humanity of unseen occupants. This is a film you want to see projected, in a theater, not on DVD. Chris Wilcha is a filmmaker. In 2008 he won an Emmy for directing the television series This American Life. knobelsdorf catalog.indd 7 9/21/09 9:46:57 PM

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9 Opposite:Yellow House 158th St., 2009, oil on canvas laid down, 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 Above: Mound on Columbus, 2009, oil on cigar box panel, 10 x 14 knobelsdorf catalog.indd 9 9/21/09 9:46:59 PM

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11 Above: Auto Salvage Lot III, 2006 oil on panel, 10 x 14 Left: Heckman Screen Printing Co., 2005 (detail) oil on panel, 11 1/2 x 12 1/2 knobelsdorf catalog.indd 11 9/21/09 9:47:01 PM

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13 Above: Gal in White Dress, 2009, oil on canvas, 10 x 8 Left: Mountain Street, 2008, oil on panel, 8 x 8 knobelsdorf catalog.indd 13 9/21/09 9:47:02 PM

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15 Above: Camden, New Jersey, oil on cigar boxtop, 6 x 10 3/4 Left: imberly, 2007, oil on panel, 12 x 12 knobelsdorf catalog.indd 15 9/21/09 9:47:02 PM

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17 Above: Fruitville Pike, 2006, oil on canvas, 8 x 10 Left: Alabama, 2007, oil on panel, 10 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches (detail) knobelsdorf catalog.indd 17 9/21/09 9:47:03 PM

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19 Opposite: Fort Lauderdale #1, 2007, oil on panel, 11 x 11 Above: Woman with Sneakers, 2009, oil on canvas, 8 1/8 x 7 7/8 knobelsdorf catalog.indd 19 9/21/09 9:47:05 PM

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21 Opposite: PS 186, oil on paper laid down, 11 3/4 x 9 Above: Ocean World, 2006, oil on panel, 8 x 8 knobelsdorf catalog.indd 21 9/21/09 9:47:09 PM

22 knobelsdorf catalog.indd 22 Above: Naval Yard, 2009 oil on panel, 9 x 11 9/21/09 9:47:11 PM

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BLUE BIRD PETER HEINEMANN

BLUE BIRD PETER HEINEMANN BLUEBIRD PETER HEINEMANN Summer Still Life, 2007 oil on linen 52 x 38 inches BLUEBIRD PETER HEINEMANN RECENT PAINTINGS April 8 through May 10, 2008 ESSAY BY DAVID COHEN Gallery Schlesinger 24 East 73 Street,