Art In Brief
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THERE I WAS
303 Gallery
Until now, the American artist Collier Schorr (b. 1963) has almost exclusively exhibited photographs, and is best known for her series of portraits of adolescents. Her new show hews to the theme of adolescence but is a departure both in tone and medium. Using pencil drawing and photographs, the exhibition tells the story of a dragcar racer, Charlie “Astoria Chas” Snyder, whom the artist’s father, Martyn Schorr, photographed in 1967 for a muscle car magazine. Snyder drove a red 1967 L-88 powered Corvette Sting Ray called Ko-Motion. He was drafted into the Vietnam War and killed a month later. The drawings here range from sketches, such as “Stacked Deck (Showing off for Charlie)” (2007), to works like “Evermore” (2007), which depicts a bruised Snyder, to the collage “Charlie as He Was” (2007), a linear drawing with pasted photographs standing in for parts of the body and a photo of Ko-Motion’s front end at the bottom, suggesting that man and machine were one.
Daniel Kunitz
Until October 27 (525 W. 22nd St., between Tenth and Eleventh avenues, 212-255-1121).
