OPEN May 2 - May 27, 2000 Opening: Thursday, May 11, 2000, 6-8pm Artists included: Alejandro Cardenas, Holly Coulis, Matt Dilling, Ridley Howard, Young Suh Suk, Aaron Wexler, Kevin Zucker.
Holly Coulis's work takes on the aesthetics of home decoration while addressing the constructs of nostalgia and sentiment. Coulis uses felt, watercolor and beads to create her understated fantasy world.
Matt Dilling takes commonly-used emotional statements and makes them glow. Dilling will be displaying two neon signs in the gallery windows. One will say "I miss you", the other will be a white dove holding an olive branch.
Ridley Howard's paintings depict a semi-fictional world loosely based on the setting of his youth. The characters and situations depicted in the scenes sit between the archetypal and the specific, linking the inherent fictionality of painting, storytelling and self reflection.
Young Suh Suk photographs the landscape in a manner reminiscent of German photography. His large images draw attention to the voids in nature. Some of these voids are real and some are constructed digitally.
Aaron Wexler's pieces deal with the relationship between projection and displacement. His work is based on elemental ideas of abstraction and modern design. Wexler will be showing objects made by sewing striped clothing together as well as paintings inspired by forms found in architecture and interior decor.
Kevin Zucker's paintings integrate customized manufacturing processes with detailed digital perspective. His paintings look at the institutionalization of utopian architecture and geometrical form. Alejandro Cardenas's work experiments with different modes of creating narrative. Cardenas's story (about Florida upper-class high school girl gangs) is represented entirely by the signs his characters produce, not the movements they make. His work takes the form of environmental video, artifacts and drawings.
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