Stephen Gang Gallery, Inc.
529 W. 20th St. 4E
New York, NY 10011
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
MARGERY AMDUR
reception: April 7, 6:00-8:00 pm
"LightFalls"
April 7-April 28, 2001,By Margery Amdur, an installation created mainly of
wire mesh screening, including light and video, is a continuation of several
years of investigation, including her last exhibition at Stephen Gang
Gallery, Seams to Be Constructed II, October 1997. The three-dimensional
installation is accented with plastic tubing and industrial wire that gives
additional strength, as well as, visual complexity.
Amdur's exhibitions are both opulent and obsessive. They are filled with
contradiction concerning women's sense of femininity, class, social codes and
lineage. The installations of Margery Amdur hover between the enchanting and
the haunting. With silvery screens, she creates translucent environments,
furniture, fashion, and fabrics. Amdur transports her viewers into a realm
of forms, webs and shadow to address the history of the decorative and the
domestic in relation to the female. Other elements in Amdur's installations
move further away from referencing specific or whole objects. These
constructs employ magnification and labor intensive material transformation
as a means of referencing the links between contemporary sculpture and the
lineage's of lace-making, sewing, embroidery, and other textile crafts.
In her newest installation, "Lightfalls," Amdur incorporates lighting within
each handmade component/element in the work. The internal light source
provides a light source that promotes shadowing on the wall that keeps the
viewer caught, as if in a man/woman-made spider's web. In addition she
explores the minutia of her work in video passages. Splicing together
close-ups of her metal forms, Amdur takes the viewer into a psychoanalytic
navigation of ornament. In her video, as in her sculpture, the miniature
becomes gigantic, and the insubstantiality of the shadows and reflection
projected by her work becomes the central subject. The time-based media
provides an interesting tension between processes that speak of a time past,
and digital technology that speaks to the present and a future.
Gallery hours: Tues.-Sat. 12:00-6:00
