"5 One-Person Shows" Exhibition
OK Harris Works of Art
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OK Harris Works of Art announces 5 one-person shows of new work.
Masao Gozu
Utilizing moss-covered, native stone from the area near his studio in Pond Eddy, New York, Masao Gozu has altered, reconstructed and re-imagined 19th and early 20th century building facades from urban environments in and around New York City. Each piece of sculpture is constructed with a special mortar that is free of any acidity that would burn the moss. There also is a circulating water system built into each sculpture that keeps the moss moist. In Japan, moss on stone is symbolic of eternity.
Daniel Lee
Using software to combine human portraits with animal features, Lee creates composite digital images that are startlingly lifelike. Though image editing tools make such overt manipulation possible, they also allow subtle yet powerful adjustments that are completely invisible to the viewer. The result is seductively unsettling and illuminates aspects of the human/animal condition that compels our observation of traits previously unnoticed or unseen.
Ben Matthews
Ben Matthews' work is an exploration into a unique, fantastical and sometimes disturbing universe. The characters from this place exist at the edges of sideshows, of archaic advertisement or odd storybooks. Creatures may have adapted atypically or have been created for some malevolent purpose none of which quite manifested themselves in our reality. Works on canvas and paper unveil a mysteriously disconcerting series of images and scenes from this not-quite time/place.
Herb Stratford
This body of work, small sculptural box constructions, combines various elements including; found-object antique boxes, vintage photographs, lenses, wax and felt. The end result is an entirely new object that hints at mysterious purpose, history and message. Often the work seems like an artifact from an unknown past, yet it comments on present conditions. Sometimes autobiographical, these pieces speak to the viewer on several levels simultaneously.
Marlene Vin
Working with pen and liquid acrylic, Marlene Vine draws masses of repeated, stacked, tight lines that become abstract organic forms of color and tone that are layered with emotion. By accumulating hundreds of close fitting lines - with their infinite small imperfections - she creates endless networks of intricate relationships and imagery.
[Image:Masao Gozu 'Window With Moss" (2006) stone, concrete and moss 34 x 28 x 12 in, aprox 200lbs.]
Media
Schedule
from March 21, 2009 to April 18, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-03-21 from 15:00 to 17:00
Artist(s)
Masao Gozu, Daniel Lee, Ben Matthews, Herb Stratford, Marlene Vin