09.08.05 – 09.17.05
EAST VS. WEST
Yoshiaki
Asai, Ninko Ouzou, Hisao Sakai Savako AND Blaine Fontana, Charles Glaubitz,
Joshua
Krause, Tim McCormick and Jason Sherry.
CURATED BY D. DOMINICK LOMBARDI
PRESENTED IN ASSOCIATION WITH: LUNARBASE GALLERY,
BROOKLYN, NY.
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9TH, 630-9PM
For this exhibition, Japanese artists Yoshiaki
Asai, Ninko Ouzou, Hisao
Sakai and Savako
are paired with West Coast artists Blaine Fontana,
Charles
Glaubitz, Joshua Krause, Tim McCormick and Jason Sherry.
This
grouping, which pairs the art produced in the somewhat dissimilar
cultures
of Tokyo, Japan and San Diego, CA, will reveal some distinct
commonalities such as the creation of
imaginary characters or worlds,
the
use of dark humor and shallow field perspective, and a narrative
approach
filtered through a rather disturbing sense of innocence. What
is most important in these works here,
is a sense of anxiousness manifested as escapism, as
the emotional content in these
works is a very critical sign of the times.
09.22.05 – 10.01.05
THE
TIMES SQUARE PROJECT
tom
christopher
OPENING
RECEPTION: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 630-9PM
Saturated with deep color and
intense black lines, Tom Christopher's
Small edition serigraphs open a window onto a modern urban city.
The
narrative thread that runs through these prints concludes, and
quite
by a printers accident, a set of unique prints that place the city
back into
a pre-Dutch colonization marshland.
The Roger Smith Lab Gallery is a project based
exhibition space located in one of the liveliest business sections
of New York City. Sponsored by The Roger Smith Hotel,
The Lab is
a high traffic, fast paced, converted "storefrontÓ
that features conceptual work and provides a
venue for experimental national and international artists and curators
and their ideas. The Lab Gallery specializes in
ten-day exhibitions. For more information, call 212-339-2092,
or email rogersmitharts@rogersmith.com.
Matthew Semler, Founder / Artistic
Director.
D. Dominick Lombardi, Curatorial Advisor.