OFFBEAT, the last eyewash show, featured diverse works dealing with satire, irony, silliness, visual puns and other aspects of humor. OFFBEAT features assemblages, light projections, neon sculpture, computer generated art, photographs and site-specific installations.

This group theme exhibition focused on off-center observations about life and art. Nearly all the work included was new with site-specific installations by both Lisa Hein and Bob Seng as well as Vitaley KOMAR and Alex MELAMID. In the instance of the latter Alex Melamid worked with senior citizens from local Northside Senior Center. He collected information on a new "school" of painting called "neo-senilism". Together with his partner Komar, they created an installation based on this idea. Other participants included recent New Museum retrospective artist Martin Wong, Los Angeles-based-artist Bruce Houston, musical instrument maker and performer Ken Butler, light-box specialist Ted Victoria, and direct from his week-long performance at Socrates Sculpture Park, Ward Shelley.

This was a unique collection of outstanding contemporary art that is both enlightening and entertaining.

OFFBEAT Artists: Ken Butler Bruce Houston Mike Piergrossi Pat Courtney Komar & Melamid Mike Shaw  Hilda Daniels Paul Kuhrman Ward Shelley Andres Goldfarb Lisa Levy Ted Victoria Lisa Hein & Bob Seng Norma Markley Martin Wong