SMALL PIECES--EXHIBITION

Judy Rushin's Carapace as seen from the entrance during the day.

Title graphics of the show w/ Rushin's drawings in black and white above the desk. . .

Ben Steele's steele-wire-flash-floating-island. Steele photographs "garden" he makes with paper, fabric and wire, then photographs the installations through a prism. The resulting imagery has a kind of cyber landscape

Amandine drouet's piano key installation, which have a kind of nostalgic, analogue quality. . .with Jan Vorman's photograph is in the background.

(l to r) Folie á Deux by Carolyn Carr, Untitled installation by Christian Bradley West and Secular with Three Stacked Paintings by Marc Brotherton at the entrance.

Diplayed in a loose cluster were 22 graphite reproductions of found photographs, carefully redrawn by Christian Bradley West to be exact replicas of the originals.

Here is an image from Jan Vorman's Dispatchwork series. In a small town outside Rome, he literally mended the old walls.

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Here, InKyoung Chun's large watercolor depicts what she called a spiritual overlay. . .bubbles obfuscate reality.

Peering into the back gallery where Stan Woodard's installation twisted very slowly. . . People could sit there with or without the curtain closed.

Here is an installation video from Karen Brummund's Casa Poli Project. She installed large photographs of the Italian landscape tiled into hundreds of 8.5" x 11" pieces, and let the wind blow them away.

In the great middle gallery, is Marc Brotherton's Secular with Nine Paintings

SMALL PIECES, LOOSELY JOINED
curated by karen tauches

EXHIBITION DATES: JUNE 17 - JULY 30, 2011

The title of this group exhibition refers to David Weinberger's unified theory of the web.

Internet culture has undoubtedly affected how we gather and connect nuggets of information. No longer are we bound to particular chronologies. Artists have been known to use loosely associated images and information to gesture abstractly toward a concept. This exhibition illustrates the fluidity of connections both in the content of individual works and in the style in which it is presented. Weinberger states that "by removing the central control points, the Web enabled a self-organizing, self-stimulated growth of contents and links on a scale the world has literally never before experienced." He continues that, "The Web has blown documents apart. It treats tightly bound volumes like a collection of ideas. . . The reader can consult in the order she or he wants, regardless of the author's intentions."

Small Pieces, Loosely Joined has noted that tightly-bound articles are now ripped into pieces and thrown into the air. As we continue to practice information gathering that is less linear, we learn to accept and digest content in loosely associative clusters and interchangeable, floating fragments.