Underdonk

press release

“Onion By The Ocean”

Organized by Essye Klempner and Elisa Soliven

May 14-June 26, 2016

Opening Reception: May 14th, 7-10pm

Underdonk is pleased to announce the opening of “Onion By The Ocean”, a grouping of sculptures by thirty-two artists.

Placed atop a gridded table, these aesthetically dissonant sculptures, alike in their diminutive scale, juxtapose a broad range of styles; such as abstract, animal forms, cosmological, figuration, found objects, grotesque, and symbolic. The grid operates as a module for displaying the simultaneity of being, as the individual assertions of each work are either sublimated, altered, or punctuated by proximity to each other.

“Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager.”-Susan Sontag.

By gathering these thirty-two works and installing them together on a grid, the installation becomes a new reality, encompassing multiple interpretations.

The artists in the exhibition are:

Trisha Baga

Conor Backman

Katherine Bradford

Nicholas Buffon

Robin Cameron

Lauren Clay

Kiran Chandra

Elizabeth Ferry

Stacy Fisher

Marley Freeman

Elizabeth Jaeger

Kristen Jensen

Mike Kenney

Hein Koh

Elisa Lendvay

Christina Leung

Marie Lorenz

Lee Maida

Shari Mendelson

Nicholas Moenich

Irvin Morazan

Sophy Naess

Keiko Narahashi

Esther Ruiz

Claudia Peña Salinas

Sally Saul

Nancy Shaver

Ben Suga

Talwst

B. Wurtz

Sun You

Tamara Zahaykevich