December 5, 2020 - January 3, 2021
Crosstalk; Still Now
Jan Meissner - Richard Nonas
Curated by Filippo Fossati
Opening reception: Saturday, December 5, 5:30-8pm
This exhibition was originally scheduled for April 2020, and features photographs by Jan Meissner and sculpture by Richard Nonas. It is organized and shepherded through this difficult period by Filippo Fossati, its curator. Please click here to read the curatorial essay for this exhibition.
Jan Meissner is an unconventional photographer who captures what she sees in the world, then transposes it with painterly intelligence into complex images of what she saw in her seeing. She photographs for the edge between what she knows and what she cannot know. She shoots for the separation between what surrounds her and what moves her. She frames for edges just out of sight, shadows of life too blurred, too confused, too nuanced for language to hold. She shoots for the ungrammatical mystery of silence.
Richard Nonas is an idiosyncratic sculptor who lives in a rigorously philosophical world characterized by sharp simplicity. He uses objects to make places. — A place, he says, is a site, an already existent entity; a vibrating whole always more abstract and ambiguous, more complex and diffuse, than a single object or person can be.
Image above: installation shot of the exhibition, with Richard Nonas’ work stretching on the gallery floor and Jan Meissner’s photographs displayed on the walls. See below Jan Meissner’s work included in the show. For work titles, please click here and consult the lobby list.
Social Distancing: 20 people will be allowed in the space at a time.
Gallery Hours:
Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6pm, or by appointment. Please email hanne@fivemyles.org, or call 718-783-4438.
Please wear a face mask to visit the gallery. Visitors without masks cannot be let inside. Thank you for your cooperation.
DIRECTIONS:
Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, the Greenwich Collection, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, and the Wolf Kahn and Emily Mason Foundation.