Brooklyn Day Dress by Meridith McNeal,
NYC Transit maps and mannequin
Christopher Henry and Katherine Harmon have co-curated a lovely show titled: Maps as Art. The show is meant to dovetail with the launch of Katherine Harmon’s new book, Map as Art: Contemporary Artists Explore Cartography.
If you don’t recognize Katherine Harmon by name you will by her good works, Harmon has been steadily producing interesting art books out her Seattle-based, Tributary Books. Tributary has put out such titles as Blackstock’s Collections: The Drawings of an Artistic Savant and, keeping with the cartographic, You Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination.
The Christopher Henry Gallery is a five year old exhibition space is located in a beautiful two story building (a former church?) just off of the Bowery in the Lower East Side. Firmly positioned in the vanguard of the migration of galleries away from the high rents of Chelsea, the Christopher Henry Gallery serves as a perfect example of why it’s totally charming to encounter art in a neighborhood that is not entirely an art mall.
The curatorial statement describe their exhibition:
In the guise of offering illumination, maps obscure. They purport to bring order to the fundamental chaos of life, promising clarity in the face of flux, and claiming knowledge of the unknowable. In their quest to demarcate our differences, they comfort us even as they give the lie to the notion of common experience.
The exhibition features work by Doug Beube, Matthew Cusick, Joshua Dorman, Jerry Gretzinger, Ingo Gunther, Jane Hammond, Emma Johnson, Karey Kessler, Joyce Kozloff, Hayato Matsushita, Meridith McNeal, Florent Morellet, Vik Muniz, Aga Ousseinov, Matthew Picton, Karin Schaefer, Dannielle Tegeder, Heidi Whitman, and Jeff Woodbury.
For many more images of the show, follow after the jump.
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