SOUTHFIRST 60 N6th Street Brooklyn, NY 11211 www.southfirst.org
SOUTHFIRST gallery is proud to
present MEN & MATH, a three-person show of new work by DAVID SCANAVINO,
DOUG MELINI and EDUARDO SANTIERE. The show is on view from January 26 –
February 25.
One of the stories we tell about men
is that they are logical. Capable of abstract thought, good at numbers,
interested in straight lines—the kinds of myths we maintain about men and
math describe a kind of romance of the rational. How might this stereotype look
as a style? New works that makes a fetish of chance, abstraction and geometry
are the focus of this group show.
ÒParty TimeÓ is a plain eight-foot
tall wedge hung on the wall. It pushes subtly into the viewerÕs space. If the
shape and function of the group of work it is part of is reminiscent of
minimalist objects by Robert Morris, its utilitarian material—linoleum
tiling specked with flecks of red, yellow and blue—brings to mind
catalogues of ready-made office furniture. DAVID SCANAVINO graduated with an
MFA from Yale. He co-curated ÒNeoConÓ at Passerby, NY, and lives and works in
Brooklyn.
DOUG MELINI takes lines and checks and cultivates them into simultaneously
decorative and obsessive fields of color. His large-scale paintings produce
effects of optical excess reminiscent of both Pop painting and mindless
shopping. Melini recently curated the show ÒThe Difficult Shapes of Possible
ImagesÓ at ZieherSmith Gallery and showed in a white room at White Columns. He
graduated with an MFA from California Institute of Arts and lives and works in
Brooklyn.
EDUARDO SANTIEREÕs drawings, meticulously executed with graphite
or scratching on thick white paper, reveal patterns that seem like homages to
physical phenomena (like sine waves) and architecture (maybe a Modernist
building seen through thick fog). His work will be on view in the upcoming show
at the Drawing Center, New York. He has had solo shows at Wendy Cooper Gallery,
Chicago and in Madison, WI where he completed an MFA at the University of
Madison in 2003. He lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
SOUTHFIRST is located at 60 N6th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Gallery hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 1-6 PM and by appointment. Subway: L train to Bedford Avenue. For more information, please contact the gallery at 718 599 4884.