Other Planes of There
July 18 - August 29, 2015
Main Gallery
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Mark Flood
Mansion
c. 2009
silkscreen on canvas
96 x 76 x 2 inches
Ricky Swallow
Magnifying Glass with Rope No. 4
2015
patinated bronze with oil paint, painted wood
12 x 6 x 4 inches
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Christopher Wool
Untitled (11A)
2014
monotype over photogravure
22 x 18 7/8 inches
Christopher Wool
Untitled (7A)
2014
monotype over photogravure
22 x 18 7/8 inches
Christopher Wool
Untitled (17A)
2014
monotype over photogravure
22 x 18 7/8 inches
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John Sparagana
Themesong Variations (empty speech)
2015
archival inkjet prints, sliced and mixed on paper
70 x 52 inches
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Rebecca Morris
Untitled (#02-14)
2014
oil and spray paint on canvas
65 x 65 inches
Ellen Berkenblit
Pink Trucks
2015
oil and charcoal on linen
65 x 76 inches
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Molly Zuckerman-Hartung
Untitled
2014
acrylic and oil on fabric
62 x 54 inches
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William T. Wiley
Winter Sport
1962-63
ink, oil, paper collage, and wood construction
18 1/4 x 9 x 6 inches
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Lesley Vance
Untitled
2015
watercolor on paper
14 x 11 inches
Lesley Vance
Untitled
2015
watercolor on paper
14 x 11 inches
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Jeff Elrod
Mescalito
2015
acrylic, spray paint, and UV ink on Fisher canvas
27 x 21 inches
Lui Shtini
Spitter
2015
oil on board
18 x 14 inches
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Arlene Shechet
Space Place
2015
glazed ceramic and concrete
61 1/2 x 14 x 14 inches
Miyoko Ito
Iliad
1981
oil on canvas
30 x 38 inches
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Magalie Guérin
Untitled (bondage-general)
2015
oil on canvas
14 x 11 inches
Magalie Guérin
Untitled (bondage-candy twist)
2015
oil on canvas
14 x 11 inches
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Josiah McElheny
Sheerbart Hand-Colors Taut’s Glass House
2014
Drawing with retouching pencil on silver gelatin photograph
20 x 16 inches
Josiah McElheny
Scheerbart Hand-Colors Taut’s Stairway to the Exhibition Room
2014
Drawing with retouching pencil on silver gelatin photograph
20 x 16 inches
Press Release
Opening reception: Saturday, July 18, 6-8 PM
For midsummer 2015, Corbett vs. Dempsey is pleased to present Other Planes of There , a group exhibition spun from a drawing of the same name by the musician Sun Ra.
Curated associatively around Ra’s suggestive phrase, the show gathers together artists who in one way or another investigate space in abstraction: the fold, the flap, the slip, planar, curvilinear, rectilinear, concave, convex, super-flat, organic, mechanical, shallow or deep. Ra’s own 1966 work, which will hang in the show, features a simple linear vortical spiral, inviting the viewer to dive into another dimension; hovering next to it is an angular automatic drawing, spiky and foreboding; both float on a silver foil backing. Mark Flood’s enormous canvas situates a gauze fabric veil at the picture plane, behind which a chasmic depth is inferred; Christopher Wool’s intimate monoprints blot a bright red mark atop a printed black and white background, condensing or collapsing the space of the image. Ricky Swallow’s trompe l’oeil bronze sculpture suggests a rope trick frozen in time; Arlene Shechet’s “Space Place,” which also takes its name from Ra, places a cardiod organic glazed ceramic on a contrastingly smooth concrete pedestal. In John Sparagana’s new work the empty text bubbles of a Dick Tracy comic are delicately scrambled to reveal absent potentialities – space of thought, thoughts of space. The exhibition features new paintings by Ellen Berkenblit, Jeff Elrod, Magalie Guérin, Rebecca Morris, Lui Shtini, and Molly Zuckerman-Hartung, and a 1981 painting by Miyoko Ito; new collages by Lesley Vance; recent hand-tinted photographs by Josiah McElheny; and a 1962 sculpture by William T. Wiley.