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» Jan 4 - 28, 2006

Opening Reception: Friday, Jan 6, 5:30 - 7:30

Winners of the SOLO 05 Competition
Juried by Cheryl Brutvan, Beal Curator
of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gallery I

Chris Lee

1/2 Heidegger's Dozen

These paintings are inspired by the folk art form popularly known as Pennsylvania Dutch hex signs, the mandalic disks that suggest Late Modernist, minimal artworks, while ironically being the product of a culture which has completely rejected modernity.

Traditional hex signs are explicitly magical. Their round shape sets a metaphysical, cosmic ground, in which time is cyclical like the seasons and the harvesting of crops. In updating the signs, Lee’s intent is humorous and broadly inclusive: included are a hex against S.T.D.’s and a hex for good results in cloning. The series “Heidegger’s Dozen,” half of which are on view, is named for the philosopher who longed for a return to the pastoral ideal.

Gallery II

Jason Fiering

Implicit Perception

“At the instant when we discover we are looking,” according to Fiering, “our attention disrupts an unconscious, primitive, static mode of seeing. In the transition, we may catch a glimpse of vision without apprehension; or if not a glimpse of that vision, at least its reverberation.”

Fiering’s paintings are his attempt to work back, to find out without naming it what we see at that instant.