STACK

STACK Curated by Deborah Zlotsky

On the cover : Nina Katchadourian What Did I Do?, 2014 C-print 12.5 x 19 in.

Ginny Casey Fuchsia Stack, 2017 Oil on canvas 12 x 12 in.

STACK May 11 – June 17, 2017

STACK

The word “stack” has many meanings, like voluptuousness (stacked), worthiness (stack up), and exploding in anger (blow your stack). With today's poliAcal divisions, the connotaAons lead quickly to “stacked against,” using power to Ap the scales in favor of one side. We say: “The deck is stacked against me.” “The odds are stacked against you.” “The numbers are stacked against us.” Yet a posiAon of insight and resistance can be reached by knowing how things are stacked up.

Stacking, as a provisional and daily tool, creates order, minimizes sprawl, gives us agency and authority. It provides us with a feeling of empowerment, especially in the 24/7 overload of emails, tweets, documents, and informaAon.

Some stacks are made of similar things. Others are collecAons of disparate bits in an uneasy whole. UlAmately, the hybridity of a stack adds up to something quite new, with its own character and signature complexity.

ArAsts Joe Amrhein, Susan D’Amato, Torkwase Dyson, Ginny Casey, Deborah Dancy, James Esber, Valerie Hegarty, Nina Katchadourian, Joan Linder, Mary Lum, Thomas McArdle, Susan Meyer, Gina Occhiogrosso, Crit Streed, Craig Taylor and Heeseop Yoon combine and order things, and thereby acknowledge that no one element can tell the whole truth. The visibility of the parts within the whole idenAfies the importance of these smaller, mulAple truths, offering us a glimpse of what was lost and gained in the process of assembling and condensing. The sum of the parts is both the sum and the parts, and the poignancy of that equaAon is beauAfully realized in these works.

Joe Amrhein Derogatory (Stacked), 2015-17 enamel on wood and cardboard 29 x 25 x 2.5 in.

Ashley Norwood Cooper Sleepless Night, 2016 oil on panel 30 x 36 in.

Susan D’Amato Taxonomy of Air, 2017 ink on rice paper 20 x 24 in.

28 drawings from 2 x 4 to 3 x 7 in.

Deborah Dancy I Did Not See That Coming, 2016 oil on canvas 32 x 36 in.

Torkwase Dyson When She Was Above Her Children (Herriet Jacobs), 2017 acrylic and graphite on board 20 x 16 in.

James Esber Untitled (Father Son), 2012 graphite on paper 21 x 16 in.

Valerie Hegarty Nighttime Fruit , 2016 glaze ceramics 8 x 9 x 14 in.

Joan Linder Blue Sink, 2013 marker on paper 29 x 50 in.

Mary Lum Index 3, 2011 acrylic, photograph, and collage on paper 13 x 10 in.

Thomas McArdle Some, some, 2017 ballpoint pen on paper 22 x 17 in.

Susan Meyer Vinyl, 2011 laser cut acrylic, HO-scale figures, aluminum stand, hardware 40 x 10 x 10 in.

Gina Occhiogrosso Blind Date, 2017 acrylic ink on sewn cotton 24 x 20 in.

Crit Streed A Drift, 2017 sumi ink and watercolor on paper 15 x 22 in.

Craig Taylor Alittlemeron, 2016 oil on canvas 16 x 14 in.

Heeseop Yoon Still Life with Books, 2016 etching 15 x 22 in.

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