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» May 30 - July 1, 2006

Opening Reception: Friday, June 2, 6-8 pm

Gallery I

Dianne Lam

I Am Not a Cohesive Body of Work: Life at 75

Dianne Lam: "I Am Not a Cohesive Body of Work: Life at 75" (top)

This new body of work, according to Lam, represents a quest, without a map, for unknown territory. "At a time of life when most of my friends are putting things in order," says Lam. "I have a perverse desire for disorder and risk-taking." In "Life at 75," she has thrown her Puritanical caution to one side, and instead follows wherever the paint takes her. "It has been frightening and exhilarating, as well as very enlightening."

Gallery II

Jemison Faust

Renovation Phase II

Jemison Faust: "Renovation Phase II" (bottom)

Faust is drawn to objects whose time has almost expired: they have been demolished, discarded, or simply worn thin by age. Working from photos of ruins and excavations, she looks for exposed pipes, lath, and half-plastered walls, even the scaffolding around them that hides as well as defines. "As I work," says Faust, "I have the impression that I am rebuilding from the ground up—using all the once-disparate
elements to make a new whole.