Leonardo             Conrad

Volicer                Ku

Four Solo Exhibitions
Fay Ku, Nadya Volicer, Jillian Conrad and Shaun Leonardo

May 12 - July 1
In the Main Gallery

Opening Reception Saturday May 12, 6-8pm
View photos from the opening

SHAUN LEONARDO
Leonardo’s portrayal of a masked Mexican luchador (wrestler) negotiates the tensions between masculine desire and unspoken vulnerability that exist both within the artist, and society as a whole. El Conquistador vs. The Invisible Man is a retrospective and reinterpretation of Leonardo’s 15 man wrestling performances and the corresponding iconography of the sport. El Conquistador vs. The Invisible Man is a wrestling event in
which Shaun Leonardo portrays a Mexican wrestling luchador in order to fight invisibility—metaphorically and literally. Shaun will be doing a special performance scheduled for opening night, Saturday May 12th with a rain date of May 17th.

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.: Hartford Courant, May 10, 2007

FAY KU
Ku’s narrative and figurative work deals with issues of socialization and the “un-thought known:” the stuff of memory, myth, and imagination. Large East Asian-inspired screen prints, depicting large-scale historic battles, employs mythic imagery to examine current political events, and man’s “innate” capacity for destruction.

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NADYA VOLICER
Volicer is interested both visually and conceptually in piecing together many small parts to make up a whole; her sculptures and installations seem to draw equally from chaos and harmony. Using salvaged materials, such as used paper and cardboard, Volicer’s uses themes of home, memory, movement and architecture to invite the audience into her unique structures.

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JILLIAN CONRAD
Conrad uses sculpture as a tool for creating connections between the ordinary stuff of everyday life and the singularity of human experience. By juxtaposing dull and reflective materials, light is employed to transform the opaque into spaces that are luminous and other-worldly, drawing the viewer into both the familiarity and friction between the inner and outer worlds we inhabit.

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Shaun Leonardo, Fay Ku, Nadya Volicer and Jillian Conrad are four of six selected artists from our 2006 open call, Open, an exhibition series featuring six emerging artists from New York and New England.

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