SQUARED
The Ernest Rubinstein Gallery at The Educational Alliance 197 East Broadway at Jefferson Street, New York December 6, 2006 – January 11, 2007 Peter Barrett, Caroline Burton, Jeff Feld Danielle Mysliwiec, Keiko Narahashi Mary Ann Strandell, Bradley Wester, John Zinsser PETER BARRETT SQUARED engages the cultural significance of the right angle, a supposition of orderliness and authority in all matters intuitive. The artists participating in this exhibition have taken it upon themselves to confront the quality of disinterested hegemony which right-angled forms represent. In some cases, they have attended to the interior area of the square, producing labyrinths, while others have found inspiration in replicating the silhouette of this primary form in quantum varieties and progressions; others still have applied their interest to the visual form of the grid, in which minimal forms intersect with utility and coalesce in each segment with a degree of infinite perception, as if they were measu...
