Monday, April 14, 2008  04:36 PM

through a glass darkly

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Despite the fact that Jackson Pollock called it home, the Hamptons have always been more about relaxing and networking than art. Nevertheless, it's where Adam Stennett is exhibiting his look at the shadier parts of America's recent past in "Off the Grid," currently on display at the Glenn Horowitz Bookseller in East Hampton. Showing in the relatively bucolic environs of the eastern tip of Long Island is somewhat out of the ordinary for Stennett, who made his reputation as the Sir Edward Landseer of urban wildlife by painting mice and rats in a masterfully photorealist way—his 2003 "Underwater Mouse 1," a painting of a rodent swimming to the surface of a dirty brown pool, was widely admired for its uncanny beauty. In "Off the Grid," Stennett again takes on unsettling subjects. "There aren't many places where you can do an exhibition exploring ideas about conspiracy, self-medication, and paranoia in which the work will be so richly contextualized, for example, next to a first-edition copy of 'Masters of Deceit' by J. Edgar Hoover inscribed to J.F.K," he says. "The only place I know of like this is Glenn Horowitz Bookseller."

Photo: Adam Stennett, courtesy of the artist


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