"Glass Ceiling" Exhibition

Kate Werble Gallery

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Kate Werble Gallery presents the work of four artists—Tony Cox, William Lamson, Ken Tisa, and Steven Thompson—in Glass Ceiling, an exhibition that investigates art making process grounded in repetition. Encompassing a range of media from Lamson’s hypnotic video to Tisa’s precisely rendered watercolors, each work stands as the result of contemplative and repetitive processes that verge on ritualistic. In each piece “losing” oneself becomes a manner of attempting to control form, pointing to the slippages between mental shifts and an alchemic transformation of material.

Tony Cox uses thread and small plastic objects to create densely woven compositions on top of canvas. In Meditative Rave, ritualistic imagery is abstracted and simultaneously made highly personal through the materials, as his process transforms a traditionally painstaking domestic activity into contemporary meditation.

In William Lamson’s Levitation Exercise a glowing, white balloon is pushed by the artist over and over into the air. As the balloon recedes, Lamson disappears into the dark. Slowly this mundane gesture transforms into a hypnotic representation. It invites the viewer to consciously know what something is and simultaneously indulge in accepting the illusion, as they are absorbed into its Sisyphean repetition.

Abstract forms are layered across Ken Tisa’s watercolors, creating dizzying visual spaces. The contrast between a Bacchanalian energy and the meticulous rendering of each element builds a tenuous balance between chaos and precision. The repetition of forms invites a state of contemplation that is constantly under siege.

Steven Thompson creates installations of seemingly precious objects, assembled in elaborate arrangements evocative of renaissance Wunderkammer, scientific displays and religious relics. Nomadic Desk is composed of an array of oddities: found objects and semiprecious stones, mixed with his carefully rendered approximations of them. The piece designates psychological space in which nothing is what it seems.

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Schedule

from January 17, 2012 to February 25, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-01-17 from 18:00 to 20:00

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