"Boomerang" Exhibition

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The work in Boomerang was created using found objects recycled into the work. Other work was created as the artist's reaction to the current state of our environment. 10% of opening night proceeds will go to NYPR.

* "New York Restoration Project (NYRP) is a non-profit organization founded in 1995 by Bette Midler, dedicated to reclaiming and restoring New York City parks, community gardens and open space."

Linda Vallejo

Linda Vallejo's career as an artist has encompassed a range of media from painting, sculpture, digitally based mixed media, and installations. Throughout this career her painting and sculpture has "investigated humanity's fundamental and metamorphic relationship with nature through the completion of over 200 'fantastic realism' landscape oil and acrylic on canvas paintings and 50 earth-based sculptures made of found tree fragment and handmade paper."
Her newest series of digitally based work utilize "pre-produced wood and plastics, newspaper pages, and recycled products in combination with mixed media and manipulated digital images taken from the internet and [her] own paintings."
Linda Vallejo, Suzi Matthews, Reet Das, Caroline Falby, Triple Edwards, Eliza Geddes, Rachelle Cohen, and Scott Wixon.

Reet Das

Reet Das's work intricately weaves together layer upon layer of
translucent imagery of flora, fauna, architecture and humanistic forms.
They are created on surfaces that include worn out blueprints, old out of
date maps, and stained multi-tonal paper. These constructed landscapes
relate struggle, convergence, harmony and dissonance. The smaller works
are odd moment captured in time while the larger paintings are stories
within stories overlapped with a crisp ribbon of color that feels like a
narrator's voice. The surfaces are rich with visual texture as well as
being supremely glass-like and fragile. The delicate imagery repeats and
blends into pattern from one work to the next, there by creating and
continuing a narrative journey as each new painting and drawing is made.

Suzi Matthews

Suzi Matthews began making collage art in 2001 with the cutting, pasting and, in turn, re-contextualizing of prescribed medicine literature and diagrams. This process soon expanded to include the use of numbers: removing numbers from their original context, creating sequences, and discovering new orders to explore. Some "numeralisms" are densely populated while others allow for negative spaces to emerge with clusters or strings of numbers standing on their own. Each work grows without a predetermined plan and evolves organically.

Triple Edwards

"It is a gift to see the beauty in the everyday, to realize the potential in the unwanted, and to be able to appreciate the imperfect. That is exactly the philosophy of the native New Yorker artist Triple Edwards.
Edwards, an eco-artist, finds inspiration in unique canvases that often end up as discards on the street. By reinventing these "canvases" as artwork, he plays with the perception of need and want, by questioning recyclability. Often you will find his art fused with his personal brand of poetry and print type that often taps into the spirit and power of humanity." quote by Tripple

Eliza Geddes

Eliza Geddes' sculpture work examines her interests in surface and texture. Her assemblages examine the breakdown between painting and sculpture by combining painterly methods with sculptural uses of space. She often incorporates non-fine art materials and other everyday objects along with conventional ones. Geddes also uses canvas in an untraditional way by ripping it up, sculpting it and treating it with various wood stains and other substances. By combining both mediums of painting and sculpture into one work of art Geddes' sculpture work is an ongoing study of the two.

Rachelle Cohen

Rachel Cohen uses the image of "the map as an abstraction of place posing as fact in [her] drawings, paintings and collages. By reconfiguring countries, manipulating color, shape, orientation, scale, text and topography of maps, [she] conceives new situations that bring up concerns of climate change, geographical and political borders and personal connection to place and people."

Scott Wixon

Scot Wixon creates lively, brightly colored abstract paintings. Throughout his career he's "developed a personal vocabulary of shapes and gestured marking, using recognizable imagery to enhance the development of [his] abstract forms." Wixon's work stems from his imagination, beginning as a preliminary idea and developing organically through intuition.

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Schedule

from March 26, 2009 to April 30, 2009

Opening Reception on 2009-04-09 from 17:30 to 19:30

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