 
ALIGN
January 7 - February 4,
2003
The perception of an artwork involves a measure
of alignment between the image presented by the
artist and its recognition by a viewer. The perception
of much abstract art is influenced by the feelings
of the viewer and yet geometric and completely abstract
designs can have the specific character of written
language. In this exhibition lines predominates
in four of the artists’ work. Akiko Kotani
uses sewn thread to outline mysterious objects in
a shallow pictorial space. Diana Jacobs’ etchings
represent rope and fibre sections and in several
works showing the loosening of woven lines she includes
actual fibers as collage elements. Mahmoud Hamadani
explores the ways simple lines can be multiplied
and articulate emotional character in a various
compositions. Michael Hopkins invests small dabs
and strokes of ink with subtle changes of emphasis
and energy to create dynamic arrangements on tiny
sheets of paper.
The two painters in this exhibition combine linear
elements to give definition to abstract space.
The uneven line running across the center of Eel
Kwon Kim’s is made at the edge where two
colors meet and becomes an horizon separating
sky from earth. In Francesca Cho’s paintings
lines create tree shapes within an atmospheric
space that resembles landscape.
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