Exhibitions

AMERICAN BEAUTY

Curated by William Villalongo 12 Dec 2013 - 1 Feb 2014 Challenging the notion that socially or politically charged content cannot coexist with Beauty and Form, these twelve artists skillfully employ imagination, observation and humor to produce works that engage the viewer with thought and feeling. Informed by a particularly American experience and diverse cultural backgrounds, the artists (conceptually) tow a line between their local environments and a global existence. Lines between form and content do not exist or are blurred purposefully to insist on an art that both interrogates and gives pleasure. Read more

BENJAMIN DEGEN

SHADOW, RIPPLE AND REFLECTION 24 Oct - 7 Dec 2013 On the surface, Benjamin Degen is a classic genre painter whose canvases belie the heart of an Abstract Expressionist. His work is built from discrete strokes that resolve into recognizable forms. The layering process Degen employs creates a version of abstraction grounded in both everyday and formal concerns. His are bodies without organs, lacking skeletal structure, pure chroma and medium; yet they are also Matisse and Cézanne’s bathers participating in an age-old tableau and tradition of daily routines. Read more

ALLISON MILLER

12 Sep - 19 Oct 2013 Allison Miller’s paintings ask viewers to be active participants. Visibly constructed and deconstructed, layer-by-layer, the resulting works are palpable sites of activity. Causing forms, space and priorities to shift and evolve, Miller links viewer to maker by maintaining a constant state of flux. Shapes that read as solid begin to ooze and melt while deep space oscillates between background and foreground. Each forced adjustment of perception makes way for the next, new reaction for both artist and viewer. Read more

SPECIFIC OBJECTS

20 Jun - 26 Jul 2013 Rather than a minimalist's manifesto, as it is often credited to be, "Specific Objects" champions a diverse group of artists emerging in the early 1960s who Judd found commonality with in terms of use of scale, composition and structures while also calling out artists who he saw as failing to meet his mark of objecthood. Artists in the exhibition include Arman, Richard Artschwager, Larry Bell, George Brecht, Bruce Conner, Tony Delap, Yves Klein, Yayoi Kusama,Roy Lichtenstein, Sven Lukin, Claes Oldenburg, Lucas Samaras, Frank Stella, Robert Watts, and H.C. Westermann. Read more

MARCIA KURE

TEASE 9 May - 15 Jun 2013 We feel content and safe within the confines of the world we understand. "Tease" intends to poke holes, cut into, and fragment the perceptual matrix that is our world; daring the viewer to imagine existential possibilities beyond the familiar and the ordinary. "Tease" is a populated space, a universe of hybrid bodies and masked and secret things existing at the very edges of our daily lives. Read more

ELI PING

28 Mar - 4 May 2013 The works in the exhibition measure and delineate space and time - in the gallery and external to it. They attend to the borders between inside and out, past, present, and future. Basic materials and simple acts point to the opportunity for disrupting the apparent logic of a hard materialism. Syncopated Descent is a 4:36 video in which the artist walks the full length of Manhattan on Broadway while avoiding stepping on lines. Read more

HOPE GANGLOFF

15 Feb - 23 Mar 2013 Within the grand tradition of portraiture, the sitter is commonly surrounded by personal effects meant to provide clues to the identity and personality of the sitter, attributes. In a work by Hope Gangloff, these attributes threaten to become the subject and the sitter, a clever foil which allows for their depiction. Gangloff portrays a generation not through its luminaries but through the unsung details which often escape attention. Read more