Julianna Foster – Containment

Painted Bride Art Center Café Gallery
230 Vine Street
May 7 – May 30, 2004
First Friday reception: May 7, 2004, 5-7pm

In keeping with Foster's interest in female identity, this new series of photographic digital prints investigates "images of containment and release as it directly relates to the female psyche”. In very specific ways, each of the images included defines an interior and exterior as it exists not only in the spaces depicted by the image but between the photographer and her subject.

www.inliquid.com/art/otherportals/foster.shtml

Edward Dormer – Carbon Peal

Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, Community Gallery
137 N. 2nd Street, second floor
May 7th – June 26, 2004
First Friday receptions: May 7 and June 4, 2004, 5-9pm

In his newest body of work, Dormer manifests a thin wall of crushed anthracite. Connected at its base, the piece will curve upward and out above the viewer, evoking a sense of compression and fragility through material and process.

www.inliquid.com/art/installation/dormer/dormer.shtml

About the Series
InLiquid.com has expanded its programming for the 2003-04 exhibition season. In place of the previous "InLiquid at the Bride" themed group exhibition series in the Painted Bride’s Café Gallery, InLiquid invited a jury of prominent local curators to select members of InLiquid.com for two-month solo exhibitions at both the Bride and at the Community Gallery of Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art. The intention of this expanded format is to provide more substantial real-life exhibition spaces to artist members of InLiquid.com while providing exhibition programming for the two venues. The Painted Bride’s Café Gallery will feature two-dimensional wall work, and installation-based artists were chosen for the Nexus Community Gallery.

The curators who selected the series were: Julie Courtney, independent curator; Elyse Gonzales, Assistant Curator, ICA; Kevin Reay, artist and curator of Pogozine.net; Jacqueline van Rhyn, Curator of Prints and Photographs, The Print Center; and Amy Schlegel, independent curator.

For the Painted Bride Café Gallery, the jurors selected Amie Potsic, September - October 2003; Neila Kun, November - December 2003; Libby Saylor, January - February 2004; Lauren Simonutti, March - April 2004, and Julianna Foster, May - June 2004. For the Community Gallery at Nexus Foundation for Today’s Art, the jurors selected William Cromar, September – October 2003; Sharyn O’Mara, November – December 2003; Keiko Miyamori, for January - February 2004; Colette Copeland, March – April, 2004; and Edward Dormer, May – June 2004.