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2/6/2004

Two exhibitions

Florence Lynch Gallery, New York

Luisa Caldwell: Arabesque

Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to present our second solo exhibition with New York-based artist Luisa Caldwell.

Arabesque will feature works on paper and wood panels made with tiny fruit sticker labels and their equivalent in glass seed beads. The association between these materials becomes clear as one interprets the loopy strands that Caldwell creates. The stickers are put end to end in elegant configurations that evoke necklace strands. In other work, the fruit stickers evolve into richly shaped flower and vine patterns. Caldwell also mosaics glass seed beads into stunningly intricate images of roses and a "Perfect Pumpkin". The materials and images are simultaneously paralleled and intertwined to make for a continuous dialogue: fruit stickers become beads, glass beads make flowers and fruit images. She sites her influences to a diverse range of art from Fred Tomaselli to Persian patterning of the Mogul Empire. Caldwell has been engaged with this body of work during the years she was exhibiting her sculptural installations. Caldwell considers the beads she works from a collection, acquired from traveling to countries such as Italy and India. Additional effort goes into collecting the fruit stickers. Caldwell dutifully raids the produce aisle in local grocery stores. The experience of collecting becomes integral to the process of making the work. These small pieces of commercial debris reflect contemporary culture. The materials add layers of interpretation to what may appear on the surface to be all rhythm and pattern making.

The exhibition is on view from June 3 through July 10, 2004. An opening reception will be held at the gallery on Thursday, June 3, from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 3 to July 10, 2004
Opening reception: Thursday, June 3, 2004, 6-8pm

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Project Space
Christa Maiwald: Banners ("Past Tense," "Present Tense," and "Future Tense,").
Three large embroideries, part of an ongoing project dealing with the representation of teenagers. In these works the transitory snapshot images are recreated by painstaking hand embroidery.

Luisa Caldwell and Christa Maiwald, along with artists, Tiong Ang, Janet Echelman, Carlo Ferraris, Craig Fisher, Maria Morganti, and Linda Van Boven will participate in Convergence, an exhibition at the CCNOA (Center for Contemporary Non Objective Art) in Brussels, organized by Florence Lynch.

Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 11:00 to 6:00 p.m. For further information and visual material, please contact the gallery at 212-924-329

Opening reception: Thursday, June 3, 2004, 6-8pm

In the image: 'jetfire' by Luisa Caldwell

Florence Lynch
531-539 West 25th Street, Ground Floor
New York

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