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SHOW TITLE: 360: Art in the Round
ARTISTS: Simon Lee, Claire Lesteven, Jennifer + Kevin McCoy, Jonathan Schipper
CURATOR: Murray Horne

The installations and photographs in this exhibition explore the notion of the cyclical in time and space, precluding the fixed moment or perspective.

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy present Our Second Date in which the artists recreate and film miniatures of themselves on a rotating set in real time as their characters watch Godard's Weekend. At once humorous and disarmingly simple Our Second Date magically juxtaposes past and present, physical reality and its representation within a narrative that literally comes full circle.

The subjects of Simon Lee's photographs are domestic artifacts he purchased from an abandoned storage locker and released to float down the East River in New York City. Within the gallery installation of Taken at the Flood, the ordinary spins with haunting fragility, transporting us in and outside of a fickle realty.

Claire Lesteven's multi-aperture camera obscura photographs of Pittsburgh produce continuous but distorted images of a cityscape, quasi-cycloramas of a seemingly phantom environment from the past. In Seventh Street Bridge 4, her multi-eyed camera synthesizes bridges, buildings and traffic into vistas with no privileged, singular point of view.

Jonathan Shipper's Invisible Television places viewers outside a group of five suspended security monitors, while simultaneously recording and screening their movement on those same monitors. This manipulation and transformation of the physical into fleeting imagery offers an amusing solipsistic investigation of the self.

Throughout, the world continues to turn.

Photo by Joey Kennedy