 Oblique Perspective, 2006 sheetrock, metal studs and vinyl baseboard, 20 x 12 x 10 feet Amanda C. Mathis Bringing Down the House James Nicholson Gallery is pleased to present a sitespecific installation by Brooklyn artist Amanda Mathis. This is Mathis's debut gallery exhibition. Amanda Mathis creates installations that straddle the line between art and architecture, altering the viewer's experience of a space. Using common building materials such as sheetrock and steel studs, Mathis meticulously recreates a large section of a room - a wall, a doorway, a corner - and places it within the room in unexpected ways. In her installation at the gallery Mathis will create a full-scale facsimile of a 30-foot section of the gallery's east wall - complete with the doorway, base molding, built-in light, and odd corners of the original. The new wall will be placed in the center of the gallery and cantilevered at an angle to create the illusion that the wall is both falling away from the viewer and descending into the gallery's floor. By copying an immediately recognizable element of a room, and then radically altering it, Mathis's work forces viewers to re-examine their relationship with their everyday surroundings. Working on a cerebral as well as a physical level, Mathis's installations place the viewer in an uneasy environment that is at once familiar and profoundly disorienting. In doing so, Mathis draws our attention to the subtleties of our surroundings and heightens our awareness of the structures that encompass us. Amanda Mathis has exhibited in group and solo shows in New York and Florida. Later this year she will receive an M.F.A. from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. Exhibition: April 6 - May 6, 2006 Gallery hours: Tues-Sat 11 am - 6 pm James Nicholson Gallery 547 West 27th Street, 2nd Floor USA-New York, NY 10001 Telephone +1 212 967 5700 Fax +1 212 967 2769 Email mail@nicholsongallery.com www.nicholsongallery.com |
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