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( Show Runs: June 23rd - July 11th 2008 )
( Reception : Friday, June 26th from 7:00 - 9:00 PM )

Maria Albornoz’s new body of work pushes the limitations of her medium. For this exhibition, Albornoz has created remarkably fragile ceramic screens. Hundreds of hand built links interlock to create large-scale sculptures. Each individual link works together to form a larger whole, shifting the weight distribution of the work. Each link act as windows that allow the viewer see through them but together the piece stands strong with a heavy presence creating a spatial interaction with the gallery.


Kim Johnson often works within the realms of current environmental issues. Johnson’s new body of work presents the complex and at times contentious relationships between man and nature. The exhibition will include a series of watercolor paintings and cutout works on paper. These works contextualize scientific data and depict projected changes of particular landmasses over the next hundred years. At first glance the works resemble a microscopic view of a cross section of some unknown organic material. Upon a closer view, one can make out a faint embossed line that creates an outline of what is now recognized as an aerial view of a state or continent. The abstracted patches of color reveal what the land will resemble in one hundred years.