No
End, But Addition
November
21, 2003 - January 2, 2004
Experience the wonder of challenging your perception through the work of four New York City area artists as SPACES Gallery presents No End, But Addition, on view November 21st to January 2nd. Seongmin Ahn, Jin Lee, Linda Pelaez-Dorian and Katarina Wong create site-sensitive installations and drawings that slow the process of viewing art and reveal powerfully pure moments of enjoyment and contemplation. These personally altered spaces contain glowing corners, reflective ribbons, the obsessive language of lines, and migratory patterns mapped by fingerprints.
Please join us for a free opening reception Friday, November 21st, from 5-9pm. Enjoy refreshments and free parking on the Superior Viaduct.
Repetition acts as a binding element throughout No End, But Addition. Seongmin Ahn approaches repetition as a religious rite. Coming to terms with chronic pain, Ahn incorporates elements of meditation in her work. Ahn folds, dyes, re-folds and re-dyes rice paper, creating paper pieces and delicate banners that correspond directly to the corners of a room or wall space. Linda Pelaez-Dorian inserts ribbons and sequins into the wall to form small shelves of reflective light. These intricate site-specific wall sculptures reveal sensuous patterns of material and light.
Jin Lee's dynamic drawings begin with a single dot. Lee intuitively responds to the rhythms and forms that emerge organically from her mark-making process. Each drawing grows, mutates and explodes on the gallery walls. Ambiguity is at the heart of Katarina Wong's work. Wong investigates migratory patterns and human interdependency. Her labor-intensive work involves creating molds from her friends' fingerprints, which she mounts with pins directly on the gallery wall. The result is a mesmerizing array of contradictory shadows, which beckon the viewer to look and look again.
Ahn, Lee, Pelaez-Dorian and Wong modify and manipulate SPACES Gallery through repetitive processes, orchestrating a myriad of visual notes into a spatial web. No End, But Addition provides gallery-goers with room to float their own thoughts and create personalized moments of wonder. No End, But Addition adds up to an experience that is much more than the sum of its moments.
SPECIAL EVENT
The Cleveland Urban Gallery Hop is coming to town! Please join
us Friday, December 5th, from 5 - 9pm and Saturday, December 6th, from
10 - 5pm when Lolley the Trolley stops at SPACES Gallery. Check
out No End, But Addition and other Ohio City and Downtown galleries,
shops and restaurants. SPACES is open until 9pm every Friday and Saturday
evening!
This event is free and open to the public. No pre-registration necessary.
SPACES is a non-profit, artist-run, alternative space gallery. Since 1978,
SPACES has given over 7,500 artists in the visual and performing arts
an arena in which to present challenging new ideas. SPACES is located
at 2220 Superior Viaduct on the West side of the Flats. Superior Viaduct
runs parallel to the Detroit Superior Bridge at the intersection of West
25th Street.
