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HYDRO
Curated by Hydro
Dates: January 13 – February 10, 2001
Opening Reception: Saturday January 13, 5–7 pm
Marcel Sitcoske Gallery is proud to
present HYDRO, a group exhibition based on the theme of water curated
by painter Hydro. In her own work, Parish finds water to be
a continual source of inspiration, as she explores its many visual
possibilities and moods. HYDRO is an extension of her own painting
enterprise, presenting artists who deal with water in different
ways. Her work is informed by theirs, as they offer her and us new
ways of seeing, experiencing and thinking about water.
Parish has included a range of emerging and established artists
working in a variety of media and styles. They each explore different
aspects of water: its calm, its vastness, its physical properties,
its vital connection to our lives. Angelina Nasso's atmospheric
Lunar Air focuses on the meditative qualities of water. Through
a similarly hazy lens, Christina Hejtmanek's photographs and Jim
Dingilian's installation piece capture the ephemerality of memory
and the non-specific moments of the ebb and flow of life. Alternately,
Linda Geary celebrates the viscous nature of her materials as paint
pools, splatters, and drips across the canvas. Joie Rosen focuses
on the relationship between surface and depth, conflating the surface
of water with the surface of the silk she paints on. The play of
light on the surface is also central to Danielle Mysliwiec's obsessive
Untitled (Hole-Punch Painting), which explores the infiniteness
of water, as the piece is made up of thousands of iridescent dots,
each hole-punched by hand from sheets of dried paint.
As one of most well known contemporary artists to portray water,
Vija Celmins beautifully captures the vastness of the ocean and
its subtle gracefulness in her 1972 lithograph Ocean. With a similar
intention, John Kalymnios uses steel, motors and light to recreate
the sensation of the movement of waves. Roy Kortick's fresco in
a garbage can lid, Day 2 #2 is a deceptively simple image of water
which recalls sources as diverse as Japanese woodblock prints and
medieval manuscript illumination. Liz Deschenes' photograph of the
desert takes as its subject the absence of water, although it resembles
the ocean floor as much as the desert.
Thomas Zummer's drawing reveals the constantly changing nature of
water and the impossibility of fixing an image of it on paper, canvas
or film. With humor and wit, Stephen Dean's water-inspired Untitled
(Help Wanted) and James Hyde's Covered Hot Water Bottle integrate
painting into the mundane and everyday. Using pipes and pumped water,
sculptor William Stone provides a model of sexual differentiation,
while illustrating how essential water is to our survival. Also
included in the exhibition are works by Melissa Meyer, David Mann,
Andre von Morisse, and Maureen McQuillan.
Surface and Depth. Clarity and Opacity. Light and Dark. Life and
Death. Playful and Threatening. Meditative and Destructive. Fluid
and Frozen. Raindrop and Ocean. HYDRO.
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