August 02 – September 20, 2008

Lora Reynolds Gallery is pleased to present our third annual Summer Group Exhibition with work by Oliver Boberg, Benjamin Butler, Mads Lynnerup, Roy McMakin, Tom Molloy, Niamh O’ Malley, Jim Torok and Daniel Zeller.

Political themes of recession, the image of Mohammad, global economics and boundaries are explored in a portion of the exhibition in works by Mads Lynnerup and Tom Molloy. In Lynnerup’s video entitled Squirrels (Recession) squirrels forage in a park while the artist reads the first news report from the New York Times about the downward turning economy. Two works by Molloy entitled Search are made by carefully cutting away the images of Mohammad that come up with a Yahoo! search of the name.

Detail is explored by several artists in the show. Oliver Boberg’s photograph Wall 5 is made from a tabletop sized model of a wall and the debris at its base. Detailed and visceral, the scene feels familiar in its ubiquity while unspecific and distant. Daniel Zeller, whose work we are introducing in this exhibition, has made two beautifully ornate abstract drawings. They are macroscopic looks at microscopic levels and represent topographies in two dimensions.

Sculpture and installation will make up part of the exhibition. Two works by Roy McMakin bridge a space between sculpture and furniture along with two bronze lamps addressing a similar space of utilitarian use and eloquent art. We will also be introducing Irish artist Niamh O’Malley during this exhibition. We will be showing a painting and projection installation by her entitled After Bellacorrick (version I). Her painting, a beautiful rendering in black and white of the aftermath of a demolition, is simultaneously illuminated and obscured by projections of colored dots that move over different portions of the painting.

Also included is a new painting by Benjamin Butler titled Dark Tree. In the artist’s new works he explores a darker palette, leafless trees, more movement in line, and further abstraction. The painting is from the same new body of work we will show in depth in a solo exhibition this fall. Jim Torok’s painting on rice paper, You Are Wild, is an affirmation, like much of his work, reminding us that we are more than we think we are.