“Traverse” Exhibition

A.I.R. Gallery

poster for “Traverse” Exhibition

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A.I.R. Gallery presents Traverse, an exhibition of new work by artists Melissa Murray and Erica Stoller.

Melissa Murray and Erica Stoller’s work, presented side-by-side, creates a companionable counterpoint of basic elements with respectful disregard of subject matter and materials. The recurring use of line speaks loudly throughout each artist‘s work. It represents an aggressive movement, a physical object of restraint, and becomes a living entity in its own right. Spatial environments created in Murray’s and Stoller‘s work connect and transcend their diverse media.

Erica Stoller’s new sculpture continues her progression from two to three dimensional work. The pieces currently on view are comprised of unconventional, colorful materials including foam insulation, PVC conduit, plastic fencing, swimming noodles, and more. Elements attached by rope and shock cord provide a hint of movement. Strong wall shadows complement these buoyant new pieces.

Melissa Murray’s large, two dimensional works on paper focus on the idea of freezing an active moment of thought. Metaphor and visual narrative are born out of a studio practice in which Murray’s ideas are bombarded with a successive rotation of images, the clusters gathering into patterns. Murray relies on a stream of consciousness to present an honest story, each work becoming a collection of coded memories that are quieted, yet clarified by capturing the most fleeting thought.

The works exhibited in Traverse are in conversation with each other through their points of similarity and divergence. During the exhibition a soundscape created by Impala Static will provide ambient ‘noise’, enhancing these two artists visions.

[Images: Melissa Murray, “ ’The spectral mists of dawn shrowded the trees and hung low along the landscape’ ” (Detail), Mixed medium on paper, 2014, Erica Stoller, Traverse: 6733 (Detail), Mixed media, 2013]

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Schedule

from February 06, 2014 to March 02, 2014

Opening Reception on 2014-02-06 from 18:00 to 21:00

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