Oona Stern, Jeremy Sigler, Cindy Poorbaugh at Sara Meltzer's On view..., New York

INSTALLED: Oona Stern, Jeremy Sigler, Cindy Poorbaugh
Sara Meltzer's On view..., New York
July 7 - July 31, 1998

Sara Meltzer's On View... presents three sculptural installations by three emerging artists. The group show, INSTALLED brings together the work of artists Oona Stern, Cindy Poorbaugh and Jeremy Sigler. Gracefully straddling the line between sculpture, architecture and drawing, all three artists have INSTALLED works that coexist in a compatible yet imposing way.

Oona Stern's stone column subtly parallels the gallery's only actual structural support. As the lone column in the space ambiguously imposes its presence, so to does Stern's stone construction. The handmade stones hang from the ceiling seemingly as an illusion and as a physical reality. Indebted to the beauty of paradox, Stern's piece is simultaneously heavy yet weightless, flat whilst dense, floating but hanging. Oona Stern received her MFA ('96) from the School of Visual Art, New York, NY. Her work is currently on view at White Columns in the "Wall Work" exhibition curated by Lauren Ross and Elizabeth Ferguson.

Jeremy Sigler's clay wall pieces are poetic in both a literal and figurative manner. As the doughy animators' clay encases the column of the gallery, the viewer senses the intense emotional grip of the artist, as well as that of the poem and the sculpture itself. Rather than opposing the architecture of the space, Sigler's piece boldly embraces it. Never just words on a wall, a calm yet confident play arises between literal language and the language of form. Jeremy Sigler received his MFA ('96) in Sculpture from UCLA, Los Angeles, California. He recently exhibited at Tricia Collins Grand Salon, NY.

Cindy Poorbaugh's Blotch exists as an oversized digitally generated drawing. Directly applied to the wall as if it were literally wallpaper, the piece envelopes the physicality of the gallery wall. The image depicted, although two-dimensional, draws the viewer in creating the illusion of depth. Having begun as a small doodle in the artist's notebook, Blotch was then enlarged and therefore transformed. Specifically created to suit the space, Blotch deliberately retains the sense of chance found in the original doodle. Cindy Poorbaugh received her MFA ('95) from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. Her work is also currently on view at White Columns in the "Wall Work" exhibition curated by Lauren Ross and Elizabeth Ferguson.

SARA MELTZER ON VIEW...
588 Broadway, Room 612, New York, NY 10012
www.sarameltzer.com