Mary’s New Home and other works

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Roman Cochet’s work depicts scenes in which humanity appears to have vanished. A sense of desolation is palpable as untamed vegetation and overturned furniture fill in the gaps of human civilization. Also on display are “half-plant, half-robot” sculptures cast in resin and composed of a banal array of objects, from plastic vegetation to computer cables.

Michael Buthe reveals a universe that is exuberant and dreamlike in his paintings and installations. In the 1970s, this was expressed in the form of room-sized environments. The paintings and objects which follow in the 1980s and early 1990s consist of intensely colored assemblages that seem on the verge of self-combustion.

A central facet of Willie Cole’s work since the 1980s has been his use and transformation of found objects, from irons tobicycle parts to women’s shoes. 

The paintings of Diango Hernández often address failures of communication; images dissolve and messages are unsent.

Robert Kinmont grew up in the desert near Bishop, CA and has lived most of his adult life in northern California. These rural environments have provided the practical and conceptual foundation for his work, exemplified by his recurrent use of natural materials such as wood and dirt.

Stefan Kürten’s densely imaged paintings examine the visual language of 20th century architecture.

Jorge Macchi’s paintings alter scale and context to depart from the ordinary. Macchi’s paintings have been termed “anti-iconic” by curator and art historian Cuauhtémoc Medina, in that they seek to escape an overcoded, predictableinterpretation of the medium and move toward an understanding of painting tied to individual experience and ambiguity.

Rita McBride’s Glass Conduits 1999 are a set of 16 one-meter modular tubes hand blown in Murano glass. The modular is installed vertically in the gallery with a construction grade system of ceiling/wall conduit brackets. These works are at the core of McBride’s 30 year investigation of service systems that dominate our modern built world. The use of customized Lalique like frosted Murano glass highlights the important role of the service conduit that brings daily electricity and water.