Opening reception: March 3, 2006, 5 - 9 pm

Nexus/Foundation for Today's Art will be
presenting MATCHED PAIRS, a group exhibition of the newest gallery members
and their invited guests. New artist members include Peter Alele, Elaine
M. Erne, Rebecca Gilbert, and Chris Macan. These members have chosen to
invite Tasha Doremus, Warren Angle, Michael Beitz, and Kyle Cassidy
respectively. This exhibition opens March 3 and runs through March 26.

Twice a year, applicants are reviewed by existing Nexus artists for
inclusion into the artist membership. Due to this peer review process, the
original motivation for a collective of experimental, non-commercial
artists and a venue to showcase their work has sustained for thirty years.
At the present day, Nexus exhibits artists who retain the same spirit of
artistic expression and invention that was devised by the founders of the
organization.

This years newest members include:
Peter Alele, an experimental photographer whose images grow out of an
interest in abstract forms alluding to the body. They have been influenced
by images from medical textbooks, X-rays, and scientific microphotography
and like many scientific images, are photographed using a macro lens.

Elaine M. Erne's large graphite pencil drawings and prints of The Lives
and Traumas of Stuffed Animals represents the anguish and pain from
childhood. Using toys as an allegory for children and their fears, the
circumstances represented capture the aura that surrounds a person who has
no control.

Printmaker Rebecca Gilbert investigates the process of printmaking through
experimentation variation, and the integration of media other than simply
ink and paper. Working with multiples and informed by book arts, the work
integrates text and narrative and emphasizes detailed sewing and
cleanliness, which appeals to the obsessive and worrisome aspects of human
nature.

Photographer Chris Macan experiments with the format of formal photography
with his new series Full Circle. Whereas most photographs show the viewer
a cropped piece of what the lens saw, the works in this series use the
full viewpoint of the lens. The stark look of these images, showing the
subject in the center and devoid of props forces the subject to carry the
photograph and convey personality through no more than their expressions
and body language.

Invited artists include:
Invited by Peter Alele. Tasha Doremus's images are sliced and torn
polaroids and medium format photographs of landscapes taken all over the
world. The photographs have been systematically sliced horizontally with a
straight edge, sometimes switching the skies between images, and sometimes
rearranging a single image so that the back, middle and foregrounds are
reconfigured.

Invited by Elaine M Erne. Warren Angle's overriding theme in his work is
the visual melding of art with ecology issues. His work is composed of a
wide range of materials from collections of found objects that create a
visual narrative that stems from an interest in who we are as humans and
our relationships to the rest of nature.

Invited by Rebecca Gilbert. Michael Beitz is a sculptor, whose use of
casting and mold making has inspired an exploration of printmaking. Adding
or subtracting from images and the infinite possibilities within the world
of printmaking, Michael is able to sketch and work through ideas which
often develop into interactive sculpture and installations.

Invited by Chris Macan. Kyle Cassidy has been photographing bands since
the New Jersey hair metal scene exploded around him in a heavy spray of
aqua net and spandex in the mid 1980's. Kyle has photographed well known
bands such as Aerosmith, the Ramones, Skinny Puppy, and Duran Duran, as
well as bands that you should know about such as the Dresden Dolls, Carfax
Abbey, Brainclaw, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, and The Empire Hideous.