Ellie Murphy's installation "Untitled (Documentary, 1977-1999), Paper, ink, vinyl and cotton string, 11 inches by 283 feet, is the original "Star Wars" story handwritten in gold ink on 292 pages of notebook paper, each page encased in plastic, all of them stitched together in tandem with white cotton string. It was displayed undulating floor to ceiling through two rooms of the Gallery. Of her installation, the artist says:

"I wanted to make a sculpture of the movie to present it in a tangible finite form and on an individual human scale. The story is one that everybody knows and that everyone has their own stories about. Through the process of writing out the narrative, I wanted my efforts to illuminate 'Star Wars' by turning it into a specific object that can be taken in all at once in real time and in an actual place. I see my personal version surrounding the viewer so that they can really be in it and move through it, bringing their narratives to a space where the singular and the accumulated meet. I think of this piece as a sculpture of a film."

Of her installation of color photographs of rock formations, tree trunks, leaves, snakes and hands entitled "Transformations." Hanneke van Velzen says:

"Subject-matter is photographed in a straight-forward fashion. Some images are depicted in ways one is not accustomed to seeing, and some are manipulated. Both approaches evoke other modes of being or becoming, i.e., a stone illicits a person, a hand, or seems to become an insect. These minimal,monumental images are isolated from their own contexts as to interact with the other pictures in the series and/or the other pictures in the room." 

FORFURTHERINFO

Please contact Larry Walczak (718) 387-2714 or Annie Herron (718) 782-7853