Meryl Meisler and Julie A. McConnell Exhibition
PS122 Gallery
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PS122 Gallery presents ”Locks, Combinations and Keys,” an intimate glimpse of the inhabitants within a New York City Public School by Meryl Meisler and "Animals in Mind," a three-part photographic series using laser cut photographs and stereograph cards about the connections between humans and animals by Julie A. McConnell.
Meryl Meisler has documented her observations as an art educator in the New York City public school system since 1979. Her humorous, thought-provoking images are installed with magnets and locks that were cut off school lockers when students forgot their combinations or lost keys. Meisler’s insider point of view evokes associative narratives of pupils, parents and pedagogues, drawn together by choice, chance and circumstance.
Julie A. McConnell's "Animals in Mind" is a three-part photographic series of linked images about the connections between humans and animals. These photomontage portraits of humans and animals show the human subject in the foreground turned away from the camera revealing a mirror-reflected "face" that avoids easy categorization. The subject, centered in each image, elides between human and animal, leaving the viewer uncertain about how to identify the morphing forms. The surreal emergence of a mysterious embodied presence advocates for a thoughtful mind; one that explores the reasons and ramifications of the dividing line we draw between human and nonhuman species. The symmetry of the shape-shifting hairy form integrated into the back of a human head suggests a provocative, sensual apparition. Playing on the notion of a photograph as an image of the real, these images instead symbolize the contemplation and practice of a respectful connection with other animal beings.
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Schedule
from February 28, 2009 to March 22, 2009
Opening Reception on 2009-02-22 from 17:00 to 19:00