Lines That Bind

Start date: Friday, November 9, 2007
Event is ongoing: Until Saturday, December 22, 2007

This exhibit reveals the strong parallels between the work of Carol Benson and Etty Horowitz. The title refers to the two artists' preoccupation with line, whether used to establish forms in paint or volumes through sheets of metal. The show brings together a surprising juxtaposition of lyrical paintings with tough-minded sculptures- revealing an uncanny affinity.

Collectively, the work conveys a strong sense of duality-of strength and vulnerability, and of presence and absence. Horowitz, in her corset series, brings up connotations of body armor whereas Benson's small- scale ladders look too fragile to bear any weight. Horowitz often uses the wiry forms of her sculpture to cast whimsical shadows on the wall. Benson, even when painting representational objects, such as bowls, leaves us with something to contemplate beyond the thing itself.

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