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3/11/2005

Structuring Perception

NurtureArt, New York

Group exhibition

curated by Elizabeth M. Grady

The artists in Structuring Perception insist upon concrete reality as a counterpoint to the virtual realm that governs much of our visual experience. Using varying degrees of abstraction they translate their perception of the built environment into objects that have a physical impact on the viewer, and act as metaphors for structuring thought. They suggest states of mind and being that reflect the impact of their surroundings on their psyches, creating a new kind of topography, an intuitive rather than a logical idea of their relationship to the world.

Featured artists are: Elaine Angelopoulos, David Eddleston, Richard Garrison, Tom Kotik, Karen Margolis, Stephen B. Nguyen, and Eugenie Tung.

Elaine Angelopoulos and Karen Margolis respond to the gallery architecture in their installations. Angelopoulos works with string that she knots and stretches between ceiling and floor, directing the traffic flow. Tulle cubes and graphite are used by Margolis to explore the relationship between physical form and immateriality; her recording of the cubes’ ephemeral shadows on the walls indicating how even invisible forces have the power to impact us.

Richard Garrison and Tom Kotik use unexpected materials like asphalt paper and soundproofing foam, the commonness of which belies their emotional resonance. The mundane stuff of parking lots is given new life by Garrison, who creates an opportunity for a uniquely intimate encounter with banality. And Kotik’s work layers eggshell foam with building materials to form cross-sections of walls of silence, indicating the role of our surroundings in constructing our thoughts. David Eddleston, Stephen Nguyen and Eugenie Tung all paint, but that is where their similarities end. Eddleston mines various languages of abstraction to describe the liminal spaces, disregarded peripheries, and uncertain borders through which he passes daily. Nguyen uses mysteriously evocative fragments of an urban nightscape as a catalyst for critical contemplation, with the goal of encouraging us to question what it is that we think we know. And Tung’s work plays on the distortions of memory, as she recasts past living spaces, building a new structure from the intersection between their actual floorplans and her mental records of them.

Elizabeth Grady is curating Parts to the Whole at Vox Populi, Philadelphia, January 6-28, 2006. She has an essay on Gary Simmons coming soon on the Whitney Museum website, and has published essays on Franz Ackermann, Matthew Ritchie, Alexander Ross, and Terry Winters in Elisabeth Sussman, Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting and Sculpture. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005. Other publications include “The Popular Opposition: Politicizing modern art in the National Gallery in Berlin,” in Julie Codell, ed., The Political Economy of Art. (Newark, DE: 2006). In addition, she is Curatorial Assistant at the Whitney Museum, Special Assistant to the Estate of Diane Arbus, and Adjunct Professor of Art History at F.I.T.-SUNY in New York.

Structuring Perception is a NURTUREart Emerging Curators' Program collaboration

Directions:

NURTUREart Gallery and Emerging Curators’ Resource Center: 475 Keap Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. It is near the intersection of Union and Metropolitan Avenues, just steps from the L train Lorimer station or the G train Metropolitan Ave. station. The gallery is open to the public Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from noon to 6 p.m., and by appointment. 718 782 7755.

NURTUREart is a New York State licensed, federally tax-exempt charitable fine art services organization founded in 1997 by George J. Robinson and run completely by volunteer professionals. Founded on the conviction that success in the visual arts is the result of collaboration not exclusion, NURTUREart is committed to nurturing emerging artists and curators through exposure, enrichment and opportunity. NURTUREart has mounted numerous exhibitions of its Registry Artists' and Curators' work, and presented a wide variety of enrichment events and Muse Fuse gatherings at its Williamsburg gallery and at host venues throughout the New York Metropolitan Area.

The NURTUREart Gallery & Emerging Curators’ Resource Center is funded in part by the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation, Inc., Brooklyn Arts Council, and Leibowitz Foundation. NURTUREart appreciates their support.

Pictures: Richard Garrison, Parking Lot Perimeters, 2004, Cut and Stacked Asphalt Paper, Dimensions Variable

In conjunction with the exhibition, NURTUREart will hold an artist panel on Saturday, December 3, 2005 moderated by Ms. Grady.

Opening reception: Friday, November 4, 6-9 p.m.

Nurtureart
475 Keap St., Ground Floor - Williamsburg, Brooklyn - New York

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