Leslie Roberts' installation is comprised of large and small works
made out of found jigsaw puzzles. She assembles and paints on puzzle pieces
in various ways. The larger works move through and around the room in response
to her experience of its space. Leslie Roberts has shown at Bill Maynes
Gallery, the Painting Center and PPOW in New York City, as well as other
venues throughout the US and Europe.
The fantastic, surreal imagery in Amy Cutler's paintings comes
entirely from her imagination. She could easily pass for an Outsider artist
if the way she uses paint weren't so sophisticated. The flipped-out quality
of the events she depicts and the 1930s feel to her figures sort of bring
to mind Henry Darger. Amy Cutler graduated from The Cooper Union School
of Art in 1996. She attended Skowhegan this past Summer and this is her
first solo exhibition.
Washington, D.C. artist Clarke Bedford juxtaposes both content
and style in his humorous photographs and objects. Random mixtures of popular
culture, fine art, turn-of-the-century sensibilities, people in costume
and models reminiscent of early film making are used to comment on them
and ultimately our preconceptions of them. Technique plays no small part
in this, as does pleasing formal qualities, but ultimately it is the gap
between what one sees and what one expected to see that makes the images
so compelling. This is the artist's first solo exhibition in New York City. | 
