Carolyn Salas “Hang Up” and Allen Glatter “Smoke and Screaming Target”

Maiden Lane Exhibition Space

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The first exhibit is a monumental installation, Hang Up, first shown at DODGEgallery, NY located in the Maiden Lane atrium. For this space, the artist Carolyn Salas has reconfigured the multi-paneled work to respond to the parameters of the atrium at 125 Maiden Lane. Hang Up is not easily defined; it is simultaneously a painting, sculpture, and site-responsive installation.

In the lobby, Allen Glatter’s aluminum sculptures, Smoke and Screaming Target, gracefully undulate, warp and radically change depending on point of view. The sculptures reference the artist’s harmonigraph drawings, a Victorian-era device for making automatic drawings based on musical theory.

Hang Up is a monumental installation first shown at DODGEgallery, NY. For this exhibition, Salas has reconfigured the multi-paneled work to respond to the parameters of the atrium at 125 Maiden Lane. Hang Up is not easily defined; it is simultaneously a painting, sculpture, and site-responsive installation. Constructed of six suspended 20-foot panels of unwoven, dyed canvas, Hang Up both defines and divides the space. The panels expose and obstruct, relate and contrast, puddle and spill across the marble structure on which they come to rest. The carefully placed panels give a viewer a wholly new experience depending on their vantage point. Hang Up provides a counter-point to lower Manhattan’s frenzy and draws attention to the atrium as a transitional space between the street and office.

Carolyn Salas was born in Hollywood and lives and works in Brooklyn. She received an MFA from CUNY Hunter College in 2005. Selected museum and gallery exhibitions include, DODGEgallery, NY; Dimensions Variable, Miami; Kate Werble Gallery, NY; BRIC Rotunda Gallery, NY; Abrons Art Center, NY; The Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; Casey Kaplan, NY; and The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA among many others. Salas has recently completed residency programs at the New York Art Residency & Studios (NARS) Foundation and Fountainhead, FL.

Allen Glatter’s aluminum sculptures gracefully undulate, warp and radically change depending on point of view. The sculptures reference the artist’s harmonigraph drawings, a Victorian-era device for making automatic drawings based on musical theory. The fusion of Victorian pop-technology and slick hyper-modern materials results in a body of conceptually rigorous work. Glatter’s early sculptures translated his drawings into three dimensions; his new works move away from direct interpretation and utilize the drawings as reference points rather than blueprints. The sculptures are nuanced, understated and reward close looking. Glatter installed the works to encourage viewers to walk fully around the sculptures and encounter their many facets.

Allen Glatter received a BFA from Pratt Institute and lives and works in Brooklyn. His work has recently been exhibited in the 2012 DUMBO Arts Festival, NY; 2012 Chesterwood Summer Exhibition, Stockbridge, MA; and was the subject of a one-person exhibition at Rawson Projects, NY. This fall, Glatter will install a large outdoor work in DUMBO in collaboration with Department of Transportation Public Projects.

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from September 18, 2013 to January 03, 2014

Opening Reception on 2013-09-18 from 17:30 to 20:00

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