SUBjected Exhibition at Safe-T-Gallery, Williamsburg Brooklyn, NY

Obsessive drawings, meticulous photographic arrangements, printed grid patterns, multiple bronze castings, and miniscule installations reveal the fascinations of the seven artists featured in the SUBjected show, which opens September 18, 2004. Guest curator Hilary Lorenz chose artists from the east and west coast, as well as Canada, and all share a common visual thread of obsessive mark or object making, although each is radically diverse.

NEW YORK (PRWEB) July 20, 2004

Jim Brown’s photographs of seascapes are multiple takes that focus on the repetition of waves during the evening hours, as the sun sets. They are intended to represent more than a captured moment, but rather to evoke personal nostalgia and the memories we all share.

Franklin Evans’s work is located in unlocatable places, between near and far, painting and drawing, narrative and nonnarrative representation. Shifts in space are both lyrical and abrupt, the results of his search for the unexpected across the intersections of incongruous worlds which overlap, extend, invert, and encompass one another.

Lisa Studier’s woodcut print portraits of marine life focus on the character and personality of the creatures, to celebrate their beauty and draw attention to the increasing threats posed by overfishing, global climate change, pollution, and habitat destruction.

Elizabeth Stephens’ Porn Star / Academic Panty Collection is a series of bronzes juxtaposing academic and porn star panties. This work is both homage and a wink to the bravery and chutzpah of porn stars and intellectually adventurous academics who are physically and intellectually stimulating, be it in the classroom or on the silver screen.

Liss Platt’s digital photographs are highly patterned and structured compositions of candy associated with her childhood, which express her desire to seek comfort by gravitating toward structure (routine, pattern, familiarity, balance) and sweets.

Contemplative and rhythmic, Eileen Olivieri Torpey’s drawings suggest broad landscapes of extraction and ruins, as well as intricate biomorphic patterns. Repeated marks traverse horizontally across the paper, a single mark belonging to the history of the landscape.

Alicia Wargo is interested in the physical manifestation of synthetic and natural reproduction. The accumulation of these occurrences result in a repetitive process for her work. Mold growth, subway maps, urban sprawl, and cell patterns inform the visual structure of her drawings and installations.

Guest curator Hilary Lorenz is a visual artist who has shown nationally and internationally. She is a Professor at Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, a Fulbright Scholar, and recipient of many grants and awards.

Safe-T-Gallery is located at 134 Bayard Street (on the border of Williamsburg and Greenpoint, Brooklyn) between Manhattan and Graham Avenues, one block north of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway.

By subway: L Line to the Graham Avenue Station or G Line to Nassau Avenue

Phone: 718 782 5920    

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Gallery Hours: Friday and Saturday 1 to 5, Sunday 1 to 3:45 and by appointment.

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