From miniature to monumental, To Scale includes works whose effectiveness is dependent upon size or lack thereof, along with work by artists who exploit the
Noa Bornstein - Live Well!/ Detail
incongruities between the size of a work and its content, or play with our preconceptions about size relationships. Scale provides yet another lens through to consider the interaction between the artwork and viewer. Join us now, as size and scale dictate whether to put glasses on or take them off, where to stand, and how to look.
Exhibition Checklist
Unless otherwise noted all works are from the collection of the artists; dimensions are given in inches (height x width x depth).
Noa Bornstein
Noa Bornstein is represented by several miniature bronze and hydrocal figures, among them diminutive repositionable everymen cast in wrestling poses. They have the appearance of larger, monumental figures seen from afar.
Live Well!, 1999
Bronze, 11" on pine tree, 4'1"
$7500
Repositionable Fighting Men — or The Tumblers — Why fight when you can play?, 2002
1¾"x1¾"x1¼" and 1¾"x3"x1¼"
Price upon request
Meditating Man, 1997
Bronze mounted on stone
3¾"x2"x2"
$175
The Vacation, 2000
Hydrocal mounted on stone
5¼"x2½"x2"
$150
Alessandra Exposito
Alessandra Exposito who has painted exquisitely detailed portraits of chickens in deep jewel tones on actual chicken eggs. In the long tradition of decorative eggs exemplified by Fabergé´s eggs created for the Russian imperial household, she has sumptuously lined her pieces with velvet and embellished them with tiny rhinestones.
Lucky Egg II, 2001
Eggshell, acrylic, enamel, rhinestones
3"x1½"
$450
Lucky Egg III, 2002
Eggshell, acrylic, enamel, rhinestones
3"x1½"
$500
Victory Painting #21, 2002
Acrylic, enamel, rhinestones
4"x4"
$250
Victory Painting #9, 2000
Acrylic, enamel, rhinestones
5¼"x4"x4"
Lent anonymously
Ming Fay
Ming Fay has created a fantastical floor-to-ceiling forest in the gallery with his site-specific installation of vibrant polyurethane fruits and vines.
Branch, 2002
Mixed media
Dimensions variable
$100,000
Limor Gasko
Limor Gasko juxtaposes the scale of several small paintings with their monumental content. These works depict overwhelming natural phenomenon contained in modern media images — ie, icebergs as pictured on a postcard and tornados as represented on television.
Iceberg Tip, 2001
Oil on canvas
5"x7"
T.V. Tornado, 2000
Pastel and charcoal on paper
4¾"x6¾"
Courtesy of Ricco/Maresca Gallery, NY
$1800
Abby Goldstein
Abby Goldstein´s graphite drawings and encaustic paintings pair magnified natural elements such as branches, berries and seedpods with evocative miniscule text. These larger than life images play on the tradition of botanical drawings.
Homage to K. Blosfeldt, 2001
Pencil and encaustic on paper, mounted on wood
12"x10"
$300
Botany Lesson, 2001-2
Pencil and encaustic on paper mounted on wood
12x10
$300
Botany Lesson, 2000
Pencil and encaustic on paper mounted on wood
12 x 10
$300
Botany Lesson, 2001-2
Pencil and encaustic on paper mounted on wood
12x14
$350
Colors, 2002 Pencil and encaustic on paper mounted on wood
7 x 7
$200
Untitled, 2002
Pencil and encaustic on paper mounted on wood
7 x 7
$200
Colors, 2001
Pencil and encaustic on paper mounted on wood
7 x 7
$200
Colors, 2002
Pencil and encaustic on paper mounted on wood
7 x 7
$200
Branches, 2001
Pencil and charcoal on paper
23 x 29
$800
The Botany Lesson, 2001
Pencil and charcoal on paper
14 x 11
$600
The Order of Things, 2000
Pencil and encaustic on paper mounted on wood
8 x 10
$300
Craig Kane
Craig Kane has created private worlds within an assortment of travel-worn suitcases. These miniaturized, toy-like mechanical tableaux are incredibly detailed -- an endless parade of Lilliputian traveler.
Us Three, 2001
Site specific installation
Smith & 9th, 2001
Oil paint, sculpy, wood, motor, suitcase
10 x 16 x 5
$2500
Gowanus, 2001
Oil paint, sculpy, wood, motor, suitcase
12 x 18 x 6
$2500
Nina Levy
Nina Levy is represented by photographs of herself in which she "wears" oversized sculptures of her own body parts. Perspective is eerily distorted in disturbing "fun house" fashion.
Daughter, 2000
Cibachrome on aluminum
39½"x29½"
Mermaid, 2000
Cibachrome on aluminum
26 x 38
Courtesy of Feigen Contemporary, NY
$4000
Poser, 2002
Cibachrome on aluminum
40 x 30
Courtesy of Feigen Contemporary, NY
$4000
Boyfriend’s Favorite (front), 2000
Cibachrome on aluminum
18 ½ x 11 ½
Courtesy of Feigen Contemporary, NY
$2800
Boyfriend’s Favorite (back), 2000
Cibachrome on aluminum
18 ½ x 11 ½
Courtesy of Feigen Contemporary, NY
$2800
John Monti
John Monti´s has created a gigantic amorphous lemony sphere-like sculpture that appears to be trapped inside the gallery´s special project room.
Lemon Float, 1999
Pigmented fiberglass
60"x78"102"
Sara Russell
Sara Russell has installed tiny clay vessels incidentally throughout the gallery. Viewers will feel as if they have happened upon or discovered her fragile-seeming jugs, vases and goblets.
The Yellow Blues, 2002
Ceramic, ink, gesso, acrylic
1 x ¾ x ¾
Various Vessels, 2002
Ceramic, gesso, wood, nails
3 x 18 ¾ x 2 ½
$650
Pots on Shelf, 2001
Ceramic, gesso, wood
3 x 7 ½ x 1 ¾
$650
Finger Pots on a Narrow Shelf, 2001
Ceramic, gesso, wood
2 x 36 ½ x 1
$650
Andy Yoder
Andy Yoder´s sculptural installation is comprised of a collection of progressively larger walking canes, referencing absent, improbably-sized humans.
Fear of Decline, 1995 - 2000
Wood and rubber
37"x71"x18"
Untitled, 1988
Watercolor on paper
22 x 30
$3500
Bird’s Nest, Beaver’s Nest, 1988
Watercolor on paper
22 x 30
$2400
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Acknowledgements
The Rotunda Gallery gratefully acknowledges the 1999 Leadership Gift of Richard B. Fisher.
The Rotunda Gallery is grateful for the generous support of our exhibition and education programs from the Sally and Milton Avery Foundation, Chase Manhattan Bank Foundation, Con Edison, the Cowles Charitable Trust, Forest City Ratner Companies, the Greenwall Foundation, the Independence Community Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, and the New York Community Trust, as well as numerous individuals.
Programs are made possible in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs with support from the Office of the Brooklyn Borough President and the Brooklyn Delegation to the New York City Council, the New York State Council on the Arts and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
The Rotunda Gallery is a project of BRIC/Brooklyn Information & Culture.
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