Project 4 presents :

LIMINAL LIGHT

Guest Curator Christine Gray

Matt Ballard
Mayme Donsker
Christine Gray
Loie Hollowell
Ander Mikalson

April 30 - June 4, 2011
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 30, 2011 - 6:30pm - 9:00pm

The show LIMINAL LIGHT at Project 4 Gallery features artists who explore various means of representing reality and the boundaries beyond, bringing the viewer to the visual realm of the sublime. Using graphite, India ink, smoke, and photo collage the artists exploit the duality between black and white to reveal the spectrum of infinite shades of gray.

The featured artists Matt Ballard, Mayme Donsker, Christine Gray, Loie Hollowell, and Ander Mikalson each explore light and dark with various monochromatic media used both traditionally and expansively. The light implied or described in these works intensifies, wanes, or pulses using simple means of production. Although each artist focuses on different subjects, their work is unified by a desire to question notions of reality.

Matt Ballard draws inspiration from scientific theories and questions of spirituality. His work emerges from the accumulation of graphite marks that radiate from a central point. The illumination of the page, caused by the play of light and dark tonalities, represents a spiritual force behind the complexity of existence.

Mayme Donsker focuses on the sublime in her collages sourcing her images from a library of vintage books. In her work figures are repositioned in nature where they experience both the allure and horror of the sublime.

Christine Gray tinkers with the symbolic meaning of light and dark in relation to mortality through drawings of incessantly melting candles. She overtly emphasizes the passage of time through the burning of the wick. It is not only time but also the transition between life and death that is illuminated in Gray’s work.

Loie Hollowell explores various states of consciousness in her paintings. Her process creates the illusion of hovering both over and beneath the surface of the artwork at the same time. This vacillation between here and there approximates the experience of falling asleep, beginning to dream, or rising into consciousness.

Ander Mikalson's use of dark and light captures the evolution of the universe as well as the its expansion into the dark depths of space. She applies ink, breath, or smoke leaving a record of both time and physicality on the surface of the work.

For additional information please contact:
Brittany Yam, Gallery Director

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Image credit: Christine Gray, Vanitas Bridge 2010, graphite on paper

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