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PAST GALLERY EVENTS

PEDESTRIAN
Curated by Carl Eckhoff
March 13 - April 24, 2004
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 13 4-7 PM

Bronx, NY The Bronx River Art Center (BRAC) is pleased to present a group exhibition that interweaves the work of artists who synthesize the polar extremes of the infinite and the physical space. Seven artists' will exhibit mixed media installations, photos and works on paper to evoke new visions of place that one can sense, dream, or directly experience as a pedestrian walking through an environment. The seven constructed realities will converge to challenge the viewers' visual navigation and spatial constructs, literally inviting one to walk through each artists' vision.

Analia Segal examines the relationship between the body and one's immediate surroundings. Segal animates the wall's surface, weaving together the fragility of pencil drawing with the endurance of architecture. Combining and cropping these architectural fragments to make allusions to the body, she produces a hybrid where the physical, psychological, and spatial parameters of our experience collide.

Jeff Konigsberg's works on paper combine diagrammatic line and multiple perspectives with surface pattern, revealing invented architectural elements. The works convey a personal interpretation of four-dimensional space, where interior and exterior are revealed simultaneously.

In Ik-Joong Kang's Buddha with Lucky Objects 3,000 Buddha paintings and 365 small objects in different mediums combine to make a 12'x 8' freestanding structure. The sound and movement of the installation invite the audience into the cylinder-like form with its 3,000 brightly painted Buddha's. Entering into the enclosed space, any movement will trigger a mechanism to "call the gods" by rattling the objects.

Vanessa Woods' black and white photographs present an authentic depiction of life in the South Bronx. Documenting her subject, Lilianna, Woods presents a positive human story of Lilianna defining herself and her role as a woman amidst an urban landscape.

Thad Simerly denies our standard identification of simple objects by subverting the assigned roles that they usually assume. Simerly devises unpredictable applications for household items, such as dog bowls, plastic fans and pick-up sticks. He constructs futuristic landscapes, envisioning creatures and urban topographies blossoming from mass- produced brightly colored plastic minutiae.

John Parker's sound installations demand an interaction with his work that is never static but is instead a relationship in flux. Parker simply provides a situation that nurtures a changed familiar.

T.R. Ericsson's installation presents a visual reconstruction of past events in the artists' life that entices the viewer to take a walk through the landscape of subjective associations. The piece illuminates different degrees of consciousness, clear or cloudy, as well as defining the contours of the interior life of the human spirit.

Photos available upon request.