August 29, 2005
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Fluid Incursions
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Video & Sound Installation by Tumi
Magnusson
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Paintings by Duane Paul
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Photograms by Janel Swangstu September 9 - October 9, 2005 Opening Reception: Sep 9, 6-9 pm 133-A Roebling Street Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 11211 Contact:
Scott Laugenour (718) 384 3562 |
Dripping and oozing liquids are the common materials in the works of the three artists presented in the gallery's first show of the season. The artists have individually mused on the properties of the liquids which they channel into form. Rather invasive and threatening, the matter is far from benign. For each of the artists, it is the second feature-appearance in the gallery and their first joint appearance.
" Mix" is a 4-channel video and sound installation by Reykjavik-based
Tumi Magnusson. Each DVD, with loops ranging from 23 minutes to 54 minutes,
records the drop-by-drop introduction of one liquid into a pool of another.
Orange juice, cleaning fluid, milk, sports drink, and other solvents
of diverse color and viscosity: the
dripping continues on each loop until one fluid has completely invaded the
pool of the other. "Mix" was shown in a 2-channel
version at the gallery's booth at the DIVA New York Fair earlier this year. We are pleased to show the complete installation
in Fluid Incursions. The installation
was also on display at the Arnesinga Museum of Art in Iceland late last year.
Organic, teeming, and frolicking sperm-like forms in drippy environments remain
the foundation of Duane Paul's
acrylic paintings. Since his
solo show at Boreas in January last year, the realms depicted are more vividly
primordial, the palette is more primal, and the vicissitudes of pleasure are
more extreme. Based in
both Brooklyn and Los Angeles, Mr. Paul invites his viewers to explore notions
of masculine beauty beyond the boundaries set by society. His use of diptychs in the large-scale
works presents another set of boundaries imposing limits on the fluid-borne
forms.
Janel Swangstu's photograms have an architectural basis. She has added more exposures to her compositions than what was presented at the gallery last September. Various spaces in her composition suggest rooms in a dwelling. The liquid, which remains the basis of her photograms, overrun the sharp-angled walls of the rooms in a sometimes solid, and sometimes bubbly invasive flow.
