Building On A Cliff

Building On A Cliff

530 West 22nd Street New York, NY, USA Thursday, December 10, 2009–Saturday, January 23, 2010

books by arturo herrera

Arturo Herrera

Books, 2009

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MATT CONNORS, ARTURO HERRERA, MERLIN JAMES

Sikkema Jenkins & Co. is pleased to present the group exhibition Building on a Cliff with works by Matt Connors, Arturo Herrera, and Merlin James on view from December 10th through January 23rd.

The exhibition title, taken from a painting by Merlin James, is indicative of the works included in the exhibition. Moving between sculpture, painting, installation and the spaces between, these 3 artists work at the edges of abstraction and modes of representation to create bodies of work that are both familiar and unsettling at the same time.

While the 3 artists largely work in areas of drawing and painting, they also often create works that blur the definitions of specific art practices, creating hybrid works; painting-sculpture, photography-installation, painting-installation. Matt Connors installations take the abstraction of his paintings and extend that to the architecture of the exhibition space. Merlin James new paintings often reveal their physical structure and may even include small sculptural details. Arturo Herrera creates steel sculptures based on delicate ink drawings, large wall works from small found photo images as well as collage works that fluctuate between the recognizable and the abstract.

Matt Connors lives and works in Los Angeles; Arturo Herrera lives and works in Berlin; and Merlin James lives and works in Glasgow.