PAST EXHIBITIONS:

Michel Auder, Heather Cantrell, Mike Dee, Eugenio Espinoza, Rover Feyer, Lynne Gelfman, Nancy Miller, Gerben Mulder, Julia Kunin, Andrea Ray, Cordy Ryman, Chris Sollars, Mark Woods

Thursday, April 21, 6-8 pm

SUITE 106 Gallery is pleased to present 112 Mercer, a group show of sculptures, photographs, and drawings from a selection of artists that have previously exhibited at the gallery. The show serves as a survey, albeit incomplete, of the gallery’s time at its space on Mercer Street in SoHo; SUITE 106 will reopen in September at its new Chelsea location.

Lynne Gelfman, Cordy Ryman, Eugenio Espinoza, and Mark Woods are united by a common interest in found or readymade objects. The materials for Ryman’s rough, vertical wood sculptures are salvaged from industrial refuse, while Wood’s series of photographs document disposed mattresses on the curbs of Brooklyn. Gelfman looks to the organic in her new series of reptile skin drawings on acetate whereas Espinoza’s collages are composed of photocopied images of his previous work, readily available black rubber, and purposefully conspicuous staples.

The show also presents five artists whose works uniquely approach the genre of landscape: Julia Kunin, Andrea Ray, Heather Cantrell, Rover Feyer, and Chris Sollars. Kunin layers casts of dead octopuses to create a luscious sculpture in which the animal forms take on a seascape quality. Ray’s photographs, taken from inside a moving train cabin, capture the transient moment of a blooming poppy field in Italy, while Cantrell, Feyer and Sollars use perceptions of landscape to interrogate issues of American identity.

Michel Auder and Mike Dee both exhibit film stills taken from individual projects that explore diverse aspects of voyeurism and specifically in Auder’s case the sexualized representations of the body. Gerben Mulder takes this to a different level with his large-scale drawing of a prepubescent girl that borders on the grotesque.