Sampling

PAVEL ZOUBOK GALLERY invites you to Love Songs, a solo exhibition of new work by Donna Sharrett, and Sampling, a related group exhibition curated by Dara Meyers-Kingsley. Please join us for the opening reception on Thursday, January 8, 2015 from 6-8pm or during the run of the exhibitions, which continues through February 7.

Sampling, a group exhibition organized by independent curator Dara Meyers-Kingsley, is spun from Sharrett's central concepts, materials and techniques presenting works by twelve contemporary artists that riff on mathematical arrangements, recycling of materials and organic processes. The diverse themes and techniques invoked are explored in a variety of media including drawing, photography, sculpture, installation and video.

Like Sharrett, some of the selected artists create collages or assemblages using fabric, thread or yarn as in Lisa Hoke's Mix and Match, 1994/2015 a new work comprised of her young son's shirt sleeves and a thread wall drawing; Elana Herzog's fiber collages from a recent residency at Dieu Donne and Sheila Pepe's From T-7, 2013 a knitted and crocheted sculpture which provides the viewer a moment of repose. Armita Raafat's Untitled, 2012 also integrates fabric into sculptural installations where mathematical and formal properties are privileged. Lineage and story-telling are investigated in Langdon Graves' surreal drawings on the artist's designed wallpaper; Diane Samuels' mixed-media works from her ongoing One Book / One Drawing project; Dario Robleto's totem of jarred spools, The Minor Chords are Ours, 2010 and David Baskin's Figure 74, 2004 fabricated from a chair originally owned by the artist's grandfather. The desire to repair and heal is evident in Nina Katchadourian'sMended Spiderwebs Series, 1998 and Nene Humphrey's mixed-media Mapping Series, 2013. Kysa Johnsons's chalk drawing Blow Up 125 - The Tree of Life, 2009 addresses themes of life and death, while found materials are given new and transcendent form in Paul Villinski's Ghost, 2014.