GULSEN CALIK

November 17 - December 14, 2000

'Simply staring at visual material, before immediately identifying or relating it to the outside world, creates multiple interpretations of what we see. the visual imagination then arrives at several meanings within the amorphous experience. I call this state of being, the experience of "Mesopotamia". If it is the land between two rivers, then I strive to bridge the experience of the land with one foot in the Tigris and the other in the Euphrates. Momentarily, I reach the unknowable.'

- Gulsen Calik

" Eyes over Harlem"

FRED HOLLAND

Oct 17 - Nov 15, 2000

A project of Creative Capital

" from Violation to Fragmentation "

OZLEM PAKER

September 9 - 30, 2000

An exhibition of new mixed media works by OZLEM PAKER, including an interactive multimedia piece in a kiosk format.

Having been born and raised in Turkey, she observed widely the status of women in traditional, religious and repressive societies, and later started to employ her art work to address issues on women's social, physical and psychological integrity. Her mixed media on stretched and layered canvas works act as the female body with various treatments applied. They construct an enactment of mediums used to reveal the structure of erasure and to encompass the realm of fragmentation. It seems like each piece 'IS NOT THE WHOLE'. Fragments are clasped together revealing the connecting fiber of violation in an attempt to control. Each fragment retains some memory of the original structure. When clasped together, this act of shaggy layering is the bulk of recent history and symbolic of social manipulations, demonstrating control and power. A feeling of fragility permeates the works, as if caught in a stage of deconstruction.

A computer-based interactive kiosk, consisting of a monitor, headphones, mirror, and a mouse in a black enclosure will be included in the show. A meditative multimedia piece, 'INTO', is about the inner self and struggle for identity. The piece consists of video, audio, stills on body language.

" Absorption by Osmosis "

BE VAN DEN DUNGEN

July 8 - July 30, 2000

A solo show of abstract work on paper in pen, pencil, graphite and ink.

" When I face Be's drawings, I'm struck by a feeling of eternity. her work goes beyond symbolic references, human archetypes referring to temporality, giving voice to a universal language and deep spirituality.

Thus are body, soul, and space only one, spontaneously imprinting themselves in an everlasting instant of grace..." - S. Damo