Catch It or Regret It

by Lydia Navatsyk

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Published: Feb 20, 2007

Inside an immense white gymnasium space, artists Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch's nine-part narrative installation epitomizes art's ability to entertain, regardless of whether or not we can make sense of it. With sculpture, furniture and household clutter, the scenes gleefully juxtapose everything you thought didn't belong together. They feature human figures made of plaster or stuffed pantyhose, dancing and contorting into the kinds of shapes you might find in a wild game of Twister.

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The 10 artists on exhibit here give the discarded things of life — tin cans, old tablecloths and broken seashells — new purpose. Ron Klein suspends dried seedpods, husks and pinecones on the wall, creating works of fluid movement; Alex Queral carves human portraits out of phone-book pages (pictured). The works range from delicate to industrial, from a diner scene to a sequenced dreamscape.

Unrestrained in his use of color, Gury creates a series of forest paintings that are anything but tired landscapes. He portrays all hours and seasons, as they cast their light between the long, thin outlines of trees. His paintings are richly textured, not only in visible brush strokes but in his depiction of twigs and branches, which are sometimes just indentations in the paint. Occasionally, his works veer toward the abstract, as his fascination with landscape absorbs into the process itself.

 

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