Joanne Howard :: Snow Blanket
Beads and wire - 46" x 72"

Joanne Howard draws upon a personal vocabulary derived from nature and its inherent patterns. Her images develop through a process of examination, reinterpretation and (re) invention. The work is fundamentally informed by the materials: tiny beads, cicada wings, thread & blood - from which it is made.The work vibrates with a sense of personification and aim for a state beyond reality.

Joanne Howard received her BFA in painting from Syracuse Universtity. She was a resident at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and a Tiffany Grant Nominee. Her work has been exhibited at Lombardi/Fried, Nikolai Fine Art, ARENA @FEED and select other venues in New York, Chicago and Los Angeles. Howard has also been a set designer of BIG DANCE THEATER since 1992.

Rebecca Smith :: Attachment Disk, Tape Installation
Musee de Tapisserie, Belgium - 9' x 6" x 13'

Rebecca Smith works with the particularities of an exhibition space and its surrounding natural environs. She summons up images from the natural world working with maps and the historiographic of the area. Using a variety of materials such as tape, beads, rope & steel rods she produces work that vacillates between drawing & sculpture.

Rebecca Smith was born in Glen Falls, NY. She grew up in Washington DC and graduated from Sarah Lawrence College in 1976. She attended the Studio School in NYC. Smith's one person exhibits include "Rebecca Smith: Tape Drawing Installation" Lake George Arts Project NYC & Florence Lynch Gallery, NYC. She has also shown several times at the Ledis Flam Gallery & Mary Delahoyd Gallery, NYC.

Elizabeth Simonson :: Current 2004

Inspired by laws of natural science, Elizabeth Simonson uses fixed systems and repetitive structures as a starting point for her installations. Guided by pre-determined sequential patterns, she constructs three-dimensional works wherein each line is generated by the one that preceded it. In the labor-intensive course of adhering to selected templates, the artist simultaneously embraces human error, thereby inviting an element of chaos into the work; the rippling effect of imperfection that results is an inherent component of each project. Conceived through the constant negotiation of these forces - logical progression and chance mutation - Simonson's work evokes the delicate balance between repetition and variation in nature. Ultimately, the self-reflexive linear traces become a metaphor for life, subject to the same terms and conditions of evolution.

Elizabeth Simonson earned an M.F.A. from Hunter College and lives and works in New York. She has had solo exhibitions at the Plane Space in New York City, The Soap Factory in Minnesota and the Post Gallery in Los Angeles and has participated in numerous group shows in N.Y. and L.A. Her work has been reviewed in publications that include The New York Times, Art in America, The Brooklyn Rail and the Village Voice. Collections include Goldman Sachs Collection, Hunter College Art Collection and the Judith Rothschild Foundation.

Sally Heller ::

Sally Heller sets out to create unique structures that are at once familiar and strange by presenting mass-produced, disposable objects in unusual contexts. The result is an intentionally ironic conceptual interplay that questions both cultural and artistic conventions. In Flowers in Foam and the lair-like Spiraling Vortex of Cable, pre-fabricated linear materials such as wire, foam strips and cable are literally and metaphorically re-directed; through a process of subtle twists and turns they are stripped of their original use-value, recycled into organic forms and repositioned in a gallery setting.

Sally Heller's numerous solo exhibitions in New York and New Orleans include the East End Arts Council and the Contemporary Arts Center; extensive New York group exhibitions include the P.S. 1 Museum, Socrates Sculpture Park, Art in General, White Columns, Rotunda Gallery, Gallery Nature Morte and ABC No Rio.