WEXLER GALLERY: "Divergent Affinities" through 2/26

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WEXLER GALLERY: "Divergent Affinities" through 2/26

POSTED: Thursday, January 13, 2011, 6:00 PM

Filed Under: Arts Visual Art

Courtesy of Wexler Gallery

Twisted by Michael Kukla. Marble.

"Divergent Affinities" will be at the Wexler Gallery (201 N. Third St.) between now and Feb. 26. The artists featured are Jaq Belcher, Marietta Hoferer, Gudrun Mertes-Frady, Susan Schwalb, Karen Margolis, Michael Kukla, Ilene Sunshine and Viviane Rombaldi Seppey. Organizer Barbara Harberger says about the collection:

"There is a shared sensibility in the approach that this group of artists take to their work that links them in a unique way. Though the methods and intent of each work is different, there is an intimacy in each of their varied processes. Whether works on paper or works created with found objects, these drawings, paintings and sculptures, carved, cut, sewn, burned, painted and drawn with tape, reveal a quiet reflection on the part of the artists resulting in works that take us beyond an initial fascination with their methodology."

Courtesy of Wexler Gallery

New Vein, by Ilene Sunshine. Sewn-together, painted leaf and plastic

I really enjoyed this exhibit. While some of the pieces weren't quite busy enough for my A.D.D.-era brain, others were really engaging. I particularly enjoyed the work of Karen Margolis, whose pieces — one of which is pictured below — seemed to enlist a thousand cigarette burns upon a hapless sheet of abaca paper. The effect created a thrilling divergence between negative and positive space, and conjured a sinewy, organic sense of bee-hive meets bubbling magma.

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Dissociations, by Karen Margolis. Burned abaca paper.

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