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

Opening Reception: Saturday, September 11, 7-10pm

Yevgeniya Baras, Rachel Budde, Elizabeth Ferry, Carrie Gundersdorf, Sue Havens, John O'Connor, Jacob Rhoads, Steve Sorman

Aeons collapse into marks on canvas. Repeated lines chart the narrative of habitual action, giving way to thought without obstacle. From eye to hand to pen to page to point to line to star to eye to hand again. Multiple dancing figures appear from one piece of string manipulated by fingers that strum guitars by heart. Muscles remember the perpetual motions of the body, quietly mapping the space between micro and macro. All of these gestures inform the work in Hand's Tide , an exhibition catalyzed by the art of string figures - an ancient tradition found in many tribal cultures around the world where one transforms a single piece of string into an image or story. While these figures portray complex forms for both practical and recreational use in a given moment, they also speak to a universal language of symbols and rhythms that extends far beyond the exchange between storyteller and viewer. In this way, the works in Hand's Tide have both an acute awareness of their own presence and an expansive reach, communicating an appreciation of the tightly interwoven territories of bodies - both human and celestial - linearity, repetitive movement and meditation.

Regina Rex will host Achyut Joshi, Indian classical vocalist, and Inoli Murphy, mathematician and string figure expert on Saturday, October 2nd, from 3 to 5pm, to extend concepts of line presented in Hand's Tide.

Achyut Joshi will demonstrate and perform stories sung in Hindustani Classical Indian Music. The space between every note conveys a thousand myths. Inoli Murphy has mastered the art of traditional string figures, as well as extended the practice, developing complex nets and webs that he later used as a teaching aid for high-school math students.

Hand's Tide is an exhibition catalyzed by the art of string figures—an ancient tradition found in many tribal cultures around the world where one transforms a single piece of string into an image or story. While these figures portray complex forms for both practical and recreational use in a given moment, they also speak to a universal language of symbols and rhythms that extends far beyond the exchange between storyteller and viewer.