The Geography of Now

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE


The Emerging Artists Coalition presents:

"Geography of Now"

May 7 - May 14, 2005
Pancake Studio

158 Grand Street, second floor

New York, NY 10013



The Emerging Artists Coalition presents "Geography of Now", opening Saturday May 7, 2005 at 7 pm.



Examining the theme of the urban experience distinctive to New York City, the artists of the Emerging Artists Coalition respond to the ideas of personal space, environmental imprint and impact, landscape and topography. The intention of "Geography of Now" is to synthesize concept and construction from the individual perspectives of the thirteen contributing artists' particular relationships to the city.



The works included in the exhibition are executed through a wide variety of mediums and methodologies. Claudio Blanco subverts the roles of landlord and real estate broker by selling prime Manhattan real estate out of a gumball machine. Mekesia Brown, through sculpture, deals with the interstice between herself and the city. Redefining margins and the exhibition space itself, Emmy Catedral reexamines the yellow, lined legal pad. Arturo Collado uses video to document his distance and relationship to idea of home. Todd Hanlon uses loose change to reconstruct iconic New York architecture against a vibrant sky. Megan Hays explores the overlooked quirkiness of the city's mundane details. Elisabeth Karczmer sensitively aestheticizes the landscape, painting an intimate view of her city. Natasha Misabishvili laboriously puzzles together color in linear atomic units suggestive of the sequential order that the city imposes. Martin Ray Guy Munoz gives notice to the undermined presence of the Native American spirit of Manhattan Island, using cheap, throwaway items found in his everyday experience of the city. Sunita Ochoa, in an ambitious painting, places herself between childhood and adulthood. In Paloma Pargac's painting, the materials strive to be looser, even rising off the surface in physical mounds that run into and play off of each other, giving form to the many colors seen in the cityscape. Norah Quinn's large-scale painting informs us of the dynamic opposition between two-dimensional space and pictorial perspective, which reflects the opposition between the individual and her environment. And, finally, answering to the urbanite's need for a little escapism, Jessica Rosin's playful vision indulges us in a much needed, lush fantasy world



Artists:

Claudio Blanco Natasha Misabishvili

Mekesia Brown Martin Ray Guy Munoz

Emmy Catedral Sunita Ochoa
Arturo Collado Paloma Pargac

Todd Hanlon Norah Quinn

Megan Hays Jessica Rosin

Elisabeth Karczmer



Contact:

Megan Hays

(917) 254 0485

[email protected]