NYAB Event - Four Solo Exhibition

Four Solo Exhibition

OK Harris Works of Art

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STEVEN MONTGOMERY

Steven Montgomery's exhibition of ceramic sculpture includes wall reliefs and objects of a seemingly mechanical nature but of a mysterious, non specific origin and utility. The works are confounding and unsettling not merely due to the material illusion but because they straddle the border between the familiar and the arcane. They are at once recognizable and implausible.

RICHARD HANSON

In Richard Hanson's Street Series, he has blended a sense of reality with everyday societal issues. His work gravitates towards life on the street; a life consumed with texture and grit. It's an existence of homelessness, desperation, violence, frustration and isolation. He has created a moment in time, and it is his intent to generate a response in the viewer of perhaps a moment of loathing, fear, introspection or even empathy.

MATTHEW MURRAY

Hidden in the shadows of the waking world, abandoned buildings offer mute testimonial to our country's past. Matthew Murray has entered abandoned structures since he was a child, fascinated by the fragments of people's lives left behind. Four years ago, Murray began a project to preserve such memories and thereby give voice to the voiceless. Through photography he endeavored to preserve the ethereal grace and stillness that saturates such environments and to give a sense of the awe-inspiring beauty and profound sorrow that remains after life has ceased and only echoes remain.

BRUCE THURMAN

Multiple and disparate images, graphics, scribbled lists and notations all vie with one another on the pages of Thurman's handmade notebooks: the gritty, the profane, the refined, the referential, all subjects are reduced to equal status on these worn-thin working pages. They are modern diptych-miniatures (mixed media on wood), and with their movable pages and changing compositions, are able to combine with elements of many styles (trompe l'oeil, fuguration, expressionism, minimalism, constructivism, to name a few...) in defining the artist's personal narrative.