on view: September 12 –October 11, 2003
Opening reception: Saturday, Sept. 12, 5 –8pm

Telling

Curated by Tom Kotik

For his curatorial debut, Telling, Tom Kotik has chosen work that holds on to the idea of narrative, but does not tell a story. The four artists in the exhibition work with the balance of form and content, of individual experience and common knowledge.

David Baskin has cast his grandfather’s furniture in plaster, a transformation of intimate experience into public display, and a reminder of the power of objects to activate memory.

Colin O’Con’s installation of giant and tiny rubber bands plays on our callous ability to take useful everyday objects for granted. This lyrical display, a kind of three-dimensional musical notation system, changes everyone’s idea of a rubber band.

Andrea Stanislav has combined a sleek video projection with a floor installation of a small fairy tale world. This multi-media work looks at the penetration of pop culture into our dream scapes and how this, in turn, shapes our perceived reality.

Juana Valdes exhibits a fleet of origami sailboats she has cast in porcelain; the boats seemingly glide over the gallery floor. She resurrects this memory of cutting and folding paper boats from her childhood in Cuba, and by casting the boats in stark, white porcelain she has frozen this memory in time.

Tom Kotik is an artist based in Brooklyn. He has shown at Smack Mellon, Sculpture Center and Socrates Sculpture Park, and he is presently working on his MFA at Hunter College.