MIN.
6/4/2010- 6/25/2010
Opening Reception: Friday, June 4, 7-10pm
Lisha Bai, Stefan Behlau, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Borden Capalino, Ben Morgan Cleveland, Shane Huffman, and Jen Schwarting.
As increased speeds of communication result in shorter exchanges, language mutates into truncated variants. "You" becomes "U;" "see" becomes "c." Brands contract, spawning WaMu and FedEx. Common signifiers morph into a space of reductive forms. Working in a variety of media - from paintings made of fabric and camera-less photography to perfume-soaked concrete sculpture, the artists featured in MIN. employ a poetics of abbreviation. With an awareness of quickly shifting histories and accelerated perceptions, they make strong demands of simple materials, and call attention to the gravity of brevity.
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Press:
BROOKLYN DISPATCHES: Funkster Formalism, Crap Constructivism
The Brooklyn Rail: James Kalm
Language and Object-hood, MIN. at Regina Rex
ARTCARDS: Ben Wadler
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Installation View
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Stefan Behlau
Untitled (Prick Drawing)
2008
Punctured Paper
27.5" x 30"
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Installation view
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Spandex medium
Ben Morgan-Cleveland
2010
spandex, polyurethane plastic
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Installation view
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Installation view
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Installation view
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Installation view
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Jen Schwarting
Construction No. 8
2009
sewn nylon
76" x 76"
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Borden Capalino
War Cancun
92"x62"
tarp over stretcher bars
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Shane Huffman
Our experience is the accumulation of exposure
2010
Archival black and white photographic paper
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Stefan Behlau
Untitled (Prick Drawing) detail
2008
Punctured Paper
27.5" x 30"
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Shane Huffman
One is wise and the other is hungry
2004
silver gelitain prints
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Elaine Cameron-Weir
Harem No. 3
2009
concrete, perfume oil
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Lisha Bai
Untitled (Sand Column)
2009
Sand and Resin
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Elaine Cameron-Weir
100
2010
wood, rolling tobacco
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Elaine Cameron-Weir
Blond
2010
Plexiglass, wood, rubber, dried chamomile
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Elaine Cameron-Weir
Blond (detail)
2010
Plexiglass, wood, rubber, dried chamomile
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Borden Capalino
Half As Much
71"x55.5" packing
blanket over stretcher bars
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