If Jackson Pollock had stumbled into a hole in the ground while drinking booze, falling deep into the earth, his excavated sculpture would be not unlike the work of Heins Kim. In a series of “reclaimed artifacts,” Kim’s geometries of earth-soil and industrial landscape point to an all-over play of color and dynamic action. The obscured meanings that result belong to a “SUBtopia,” the painterly Twilight Zone where nothing is ever entirely revealed. Also featured in this show are works by Ryan Jedlicka, Jeff Kessel, and Ignacio Michaud. Each pursues the notion of SUBtopia to reveal whole new approaches to painting – soggy footsteps sunk into the mud of hidden truths, obscured meanings, mysterious signs.

Foppish little girls ŕ la Henry Darger half-vanish into sheens of paint in Jedlicka’s work, while abstract snowflakes fall and disappear through a pure winterscape in Kessel’s. Michaud applies Twomblyesque smudges to a cobbled field of canvas – one work attached to another, endlessly, desperately.

Dana Reifler
Curator

Premiere: Saturday, March 31,2007 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Exhibition duration: March 31st– April 2007