touch Install

Touch is an exhibition of small works by 9 artists housed in a gallery-like setting in Tokyo, which continues to be used as a living space. The criteria for the exhibition were those that paid particular attention to the cross-fertilization of ideas and retinal values in their different concrete manifestation. The artists come from both sides of the US, London, and one, the host, a resident of Japan. While each artist was responsible for choosing their piece for the exhibition, portability was set as a requisite by the host. In this way, the artists were otherwise active participants to forming and building the cohesiveness, or discontinuity, which would only reveal once the exhibition was in place. The chosen artists work abstract, or non-objective; their practices contingent on both concept and the visual. It was envisaged that each work should perform as a poem—a western poem that could be read in an eastern setting. The visual poems perform as breaths in an environment where the air and light could mix between and be visited or lived through. The attendant focuses and slippages could create a garden. The casual visitor, or returning dweller could bear witness to the visual growth, an interpolation of the different sounds and frames as they spring forth, which impress at their local speeds.
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Philomene Pirecki

'Reconfigured Drawing' 2007 pencil & marker pen on paper 42cm x 29cm

This April Philomene will be artist in residence at the Raketenstation, Insel Hombroich, Germany.
She will also have an exhibition there at the end of April.

Karen Schifano

image from the artist

Karen Schifano is currently preparing her solo show at Tobey Fine Art, New York, for this March.
Recent group exhibitions include Subspecies, curated by Shinsuke Aso, and Verus Painters, both at Tobey Fine Art. Also Karen was included in Escape From New York, curated by Matthew Deleget, Sydney Non-Objective, Sydney, Australia.

Lynne Harlow

image from BEAT

Lynne Harlow'a recent exhibitions include BEAT, curated by Matthew Deleget & Rossana Martínez, MS Project Space, Brooklyn, NY, and Material Matter, Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Katherine Griefen.

Linn Meyers

A screengrab from Linn's Time Lapse Video [click here to see]
working on site at San Jose ICA for a group show The Space Between.

Other recent exhibitions include a one person exhibition at G Fine Art, Washington DC, and a two person show at Lyons Wier + Ortt this January.

Nancy White

image from the artist

Nancy White presented this piece as part of her presentation in The Space Between, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art that opened February 2nd, 2008. Recent exhibitions include TRANS, Weltraum26, Munich, Germany, and Michael Rosenthal Contemporary Art, Redwood City. CA.

Mel Prest

Image: screengrab from a video made for the reading room SJICA, as part of the exhibition The Space Between
– credits: camera and editing, Susan O'Malley Assisant Curator SJICA

Currently Mel Prest has work in Close Calls at the Headlands Center of the Arts, and is participating in The Space Beween at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Recent exhibitions include TRANS, Weltraum26, Munich, Germany. Watch Mel Prest's video talking about her work and process here.

Tom Benson

image from Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Artnet

Tom Benson's recent activity includes Raum 9 Kunstraum Alexander Buerkle, Germany, and IN LIGHT at Larry Becker Contemporary Art.
Oly's Musings has a blog entry entitled Philly Road Trip that reviews IN LIGHT at Larry Becker. Recent exhibitions include a one person exhibition at Sleeper, Edinburgh.

Devin Powers

image from HQ Brooklyn

Recently Devin Powers had a solo show at HQ in Brooklyn entitled 4 Space.

Spring 2008