The only thing that I believe

kasia kay art projects gallery is pleased to announce its upcoming show of new works by emerging artist Kathryn Parker Almanas, and a joint show of work by artists Jaye Rhee and David A. Parker. Kathryn Parker Almanas’s photographs of medical spaces, bodily experiences and still-lives articulate the confusing and multifaceted nature of dealing with illness. Fascinated with the mysteries of the body, Almanas creates still lives as metaphors of the body and dissection. She builds small rooms, creating settings to evoke the falsity of perception associated with illness. Almanas plays with oppositions between interior and exterior, domestic space and hospital space, human flesh and fruit flesh, doctor and patient, dissector and dissected. Her work challenges the ways we perceive medicine and the body. David A. Parker uses humor, pathos and satire to comment on daily life and to raise a call for alternative thinking. This time he returns to kkap gallery with additional to his 2007 “Escape Strategy Series” photographs, in which he flies a kite. A suburban malcontent longs for an elsewhere, and pursues various schemes to attain that goal. But how far can his dreams and longings take him? In his of large-scale photographs he has created works based on his own life that address larger social issues of control, conformity, and complacency. His work brings renewed appreciation for what the present holds, and perhaps even hope for what might be done for the future. Some works are portals that hold the allure of promised travel, yet are passable only through flights of the mind. Conceptually similar to Parker’s photographs, Jaye Rhee’s work is a dream constantly interupted, a journey that commemorates the act of going, even when the place arrived is only the original desire. Her work separates desire from its images to separate the real from the fake. By evaporating the artifice, the reality of naked materials allows the experience of imageless images.Both artists present documentation of actual events that seem improbable or fantistic, reminding the viewer of the richness of everyday life.