Meditation for the Hand

curated by Hanne Tierney for Salena Gallery

On view: August 11 – September 30, 2003 
Opening Reception:  September 17, 6 - 8pm

Salena Gallery is located at Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus, One University Plaza, Flatbush Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11201    

This exhibition is part of the city-wide THE BUDDHISM PROJECT.

The drawings and paintings in this exhibition were developed through meditative absorption.  The repetitious movement of pencil or brush becomes a kind of chanting of the hand in the works by these eight artists. 

Sophie Jeehuan Kim:  Through a spontaneous flow of hand and arm movement the Korean artist Sophie Jeehuan Kim has created an 18 ft. drawing.  The many thousands of miniscule pencil marks seemingly float the drawing off the curved gallery wall.   

Renato:  These three meticulously crafted ballpoint pen drawings of ordinary objects by the Filipino artist Renato are from his series “The ten-thousand things that breathe”. 

Barbara Hatfield:  Horizontal panels filled with marks made of beeswax and graphite, invoke a dream-like calligraphy.  The marks were dripped from a brush moving in response to breath and line. 

Barbara Kreft:  Expressing both exuberance and restraint, the repetition of small lines in Kreft’s painting offers the viewer a radiant ocean of color. 

Lee Etheredge IV:  Through the manipulation of spacing and alternating upper and lower-case type, Etheredge creates minute discrepancies within dense, allover linear patterns 

Phong Bui:  Bui’s interest in the relationship between childlike innocence and lyrical hallucinations ultimately becomes a nostalgic meditation on the unbounded inner freedom of childhood. 

Glen Goldberg:  The multitude of dots in vibrant colors in Goldberg’s work creates pulsating, mandala-like configurations. 

Alice Attie:  By bridging her interest in literature and in obsessive repetition, Attie is able to construct a drawing idiom that recontextualizes specific texts. 

Mandala:  A 300 ft. spiral knitted by the women of Hovik, a small town in Norway.

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.