Regina Rex - 221 Madison St. New York, NY 10002

Opening Reception: Saturday March 19th, 7-10pm

In the narrowing chasm between rational and virtual architectures, the works of Jonathan Butt and Mernet Larsen provide a vertiginous perspective on the state of quotidian space. Made of wood, plaster, fabric, paint and modified furniture, Jonathan Butt�s sculptures struggle towards figurative self-realization while hosting the intersection of conflicting geometries. Atop plinths that resist the modernist norm, fenestrated surfaces define and erode amalgams of faintly recognizable shapes�imbuing the familiar relationship of sculpture and pedestal with vigor and unease. Rejecting a singular viewpoint, Mernet Larsen�s layered acrylic paintings comprehend vision as aggregate form. By relentlessly oscillating between the fulfillment and derailment of Cartesian expectation, Larsen depicts the institution as plural, subject to the liquidity of her representation. Both artists scrutinize the cognitive process of organizing space to reveal the chaos and discord from which it is built.