Vanishing Points

Miriam Dym
Maximilian Goldfarb
Joan Linder
Micah Moses
Kara Hammond
Jason Rogenes
Peter Halley

February 2-March 6

Opening Reception:
Tuesday, February 2, 1999. 6-9pm

Vanishing Points is a collection of contemporary work that explores
relationships between technological and biological systems in various
stages of evolution. Though sharing a common theme, each artist's
approach is distinct in both medium and message.

Vanishing Points features works by digital printmakers Miriam Dym,
currently Artist in Residence at Stanford University's new Digital Arts
Center, and Peter Halley, whose work has been acquired by Guggenheim
Museum, Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art for
their permanent collections. Dym's colorful floor to ceiling digital
prints of computer generated patterns invoke images of tangled road
maps, neural networks, and electrical circuitry. Halley's Exploding
Cells spell out a micro-biological and macro-anthropological progression
in bold forms and bright colors.

In addition to digital artwork, traditionally intricate drawings and
paintings of technologically oriented subjects will be shown. Joan
Linder's systemic landscape of power lines, telephone poles, electrical
wires draw attention to how manmade constructions emulate humans'
essential neural composition. Jason Rogenes' spacecraft constructions
challenge the viewer to come to terms with the stretch of imagination
that is compelled by structures created with packing material,
polystyrene, lights, and the occasional strip of masking tape. Micah
Moses' highly detailed drawings create both portrait and projection of
human interconnectedness, in culture and science, fiction and
fabrication.

Kara Hammond's intricately rendered satellite crafts structurally appear
as biological components while functioning outside the earth's
atmosphere as extra sensory organs for millions of humans on earth.
Maximilian Goldfarb's multi-form drawings are suggestive of explosive
activity and fragmenting structures in various degrees of assemblage.
Together, these works create a rich, suggestive profile of the
inevitable authority of technology's role in human evolution.

Michael Gold Gallery
474 Broadway 2nd flr.
(between Broome and Grand)
New York NY 10013

for more info email awichowski@michaelgold.com