Caroline Cox and C. Micheal Norton "Two One–person show"
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SPIN
installation by Caroline Cox
Caroline Cox's installation, Spin, transforms the gallery into an ever shifting optical field. The work's suspended, translucent forms sweep around and through the space, utilizing the walls, floor, ceiling and space in between. The numerous, ultra–light, mesh components spin at varying speeds and orbit in different directions. The swaying and lurching components cast shadows that phase in and out of view, at times dematerializing their source. The viewer is able to walk through this fully immersive installation and experience ongoing visual mutations and open-ended associations evoked by the varied structures.
The installation's components are hand sewn together using monofilament as thread; they are constructed from a commercial, vegetable packaging mesh that comes compressed into a flat, singular strand that's wrapped onto a large roll. The mesh structures are pieced together through an improvisational process that explores the unique properties of the tubular mesh, primarily its curvilinear structure and the interplay of translucent layers and light. This process is an open-ended contemplation on perception, the morphing of interior and exterior space and the natural architectonic structures of diatoms, pollens and mold.
Caroline Cox's work has been shown at: Yale Univ. School of Art, Newhaven, CN; Long Island Univ./Bklyn Campus; Pierogi Gallery, Bklyn; The Brooklyn Museum, through Pierogi Gallery; Smack Mellon, Bklyn; Sculpture Center, NYC; SchroederRomero Gallery, Bklyn; Sarah Bowen Gallery, Bklyn; Big/Small/Casual Gallery, Don Soker Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Bkyn; Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC; among others. Cox, with Tim Spelios cofounded and ran Flipside, an early Williamsburg gallery, from 1997-2001.
Cacophony Part 1
paintings by C. Michael Norton
In C. Michael Norton's large-scale acrylic paintings, competing surface incidents confront each other in ways that resemble a visual orchestration, with discordant and harmonic tonalities that the artist likens to hearing sounds, in the manner of Kandinsky. It is this confrontation of the surfaces that gives the paintings a dynamic sense of movement and of on-going transitions.
Working primarily with cadmium-based and other densely pigmented colors for their chromatic intensity, Norton creates passages in his paintings that can be countless layers thick yet allows the raw linen to be visible in areas. The artist, who works in layers by adding and subtracting paint, talks about his work as 'building' a painting. Using mud-knives instead of paint brushes, masking areas and constructing organic and architectural volumes and planes on the canvas, the artist generates a complex and compelling system of color membranes — seductive yet cacophonous.
C. Michael Norton's has shown his work at Maxwell Fine Arts, Peekskill, NY, Tama Gallery, NYC, Barbara Greene Gallery, NYC, WAAM, Woodstock, NY, Museo Civico d'Arte Contemporanea, Albissola, Italy, Galerie Terre d'Art, St. Paul de Vence, France. Galerie Bercovy-Fugier, Paris, France. Norton received an MA and MFA from San Jose State Univ
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Schedule
from September 10, 2011 to October 09, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-09-18 from 16:30 to 19:30