JOE FYFE

Upcoming 2013

Group Exhibitions

"Inside Order" Kansas Gallery, NYC



FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Inside Order
February 23 - March 30, 2013
OPENING RECEPTION 23 February, 6-8 PM

KANSAS is pleased to present Inside Order, a group exhibition featuring new works by Elizabeth Atterbury, Graham Collins, Joe Fyfe, Ethan Greenbaum and Marina Pinsky. Opening February 23, the exhibition will run through March 30, 2013.

The exhibition will explore the visual representation of "building" through various mediums, images and practices - Construction as metaphor for developing abstract languages. The focus of structure as a binding element is fleshed out imagistically, materially and literally among the works on view and point to the contingency of space and time in viewing and making work. 

Elizabeth Atterbury's small-scale photographs of impermanent constructions and two-dimensional compositions are arranged and shot in studio. The work is motivated by a fundamental interest in the tenants of painting and sculpture, but passed through the lens of the camera. The camera's frame determines the space of the composition and the final, developed image is found after a hard won, analog process of physically editing and rearranging individual elements.  

Graham Collin's varied work blends painting, architecture and sculpture values into a contradictory amalgam of ruin and stability. Large canvases of spray painted monochrome hues are framed with reclaimed wood and partially obscured behind tinted glass while pint-size ceramic sculptures rest atop upturned bucket pedestals. 

Joe Fyfe's recent work has announced a departure from his previous making of delicately quilted abstract "canvases" and embarked on a new series of direct, scissors-and-glue constructions that mine the history and realities of non-representational art. His penchant for repurposing the day's detritus is given vent by an interest in aestheticizing our material culture.  

Ethan Greenbaum's work often begins with photographs of building materials or architectural surfaces found in his travels throughout New York City. This straightforward imagery is then transcribed through various abstracting filters including digital editing, flatbed printing and vacuum forming. Through this working process, Greenbaum draws connections between the blunt materiality of his sources and the imaginative space of artistic production. 

Marina Pinsky's large-format photographs depict meticulously crafted assemblages of objects built for the space of the photograph. Continually working to grasp the relationship between image and object, the artist translates this into the subject of the picture, making images that oppose categorical thinking and instead open a temporal space for associations and connections. 

The gallery is located at 59 Franklin Street, three blocks South of Canal between Broadway and Lafayette. The closest subways are A/C/E,6,J/Z,N/Q/R and W at Canal and the 1 train at Franklin. For additional information, please contact Steven Stewart at KANSAS by calling +1 (646) 559-1423 or emailing info@kansasgallery.com