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Garth Greenan Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery鈥檚 third online viewing room, Rosalyn Drexler: In the Ring. Opening November 19, 2020, the exhibition features a selection of Rosalyn Drexler鈥檚 dynamic boxing works on paper, all made in 1991, and related paintings made throughout her career.

In Hand Reaching Up to Ring (1991) Drexler, again, explores the audience鈥檚 complicity. Drexler described the hand as 鈥渞eaching up from the depths of a hidden multitude.鈥� As the shadowy figures trade blows, the hand reaches into the spotlight. But the hand itself is ambiguously rendered. If palm up, it reads like a supplication to stop the fight; if palm down, like a familiar dictatorial salute. 

Drexler鈥檚 works often explore the contradictions at the heart of popular depictions of violence: their charged excitement, their simultaneous glamor and horror. In Going Down (1991), LaMotta and Robinson are frozen together, locked in mutual destruction, their eyes shut tightly as their fists strike each others鈥� faces. Jake LaMotta is rendered in neon green against the dynamic fuchsia background. The brutal scene is strangely intimate. Fittingly, the February 14, 1951 fight in Chicago was deemed the St. Valentine鈥檚 Day Massacre. Robinson eventually prevailed with a technical knockout, though the stunned LaMotta seemed determined to remain standing.