eyewash @ The Front Room 147 Roebling Ave. Brooklyn March 19 through April 20, 2004 OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, March 19 7-9pm PATTERN RECOGNITION Moonching Wu "Freshwater: Glints 2" PATTERN RECOGNITION is an exhibition of three new photographic directions taken by Robin Michals, Liza Phillips and Moonching Wu. Pattern recognition–a computing process for comparing raw data to known information–often relies on imperfect or ambiguous interpretations of raw data to identify objects, or a class of objects, as variations on a pattern. Such a pattern might be the description of a surface, or of the juncture between light and water, but in all cases, the pattern orders and synthesizes the data. Robin Michals combines sequential photos depicting the gradual decay of vegetables and fruit—a metaphor for life—with images of modern weapons taken from the Internet and arranged in colorful grids that convey a physical sense of the quantity of armaments, such as jet fighters and helicopters. Liza Phillips makes fictional landscapes using real imagery. She creates a site-specific installation using a 40' print to literally wrap around areas of the gallery. This work calls to mind Minoan wall friezes of breaking waves, which connote passages of time and symbolize the island surrounded by sea. Moonching Wu takes photographs of landscapes through an airplane window in her AERIAL VIEW series. She refers to her large prints as "photo-extracts" in an attempt to abstract the spirit from the form. For Additional Exhibition Previews including SIZE DOES MATTER

About eyewash Starting in January of 2002 eyewash actively returned to the Williamsburg art community with an exhibition at Figureworks gallery located at 168 North 6th Street. This location is only one and a half blocks from eyewashs original home. In February 2002, eyewash opened a group exhibition titled 'TOUCHY FEELY' on Valentines Day at the Front Room exhibition space at 147 Roebling Ave. eyewash has had exhibitions at Holland Tunnel, Rome Arts, Open Ground, Fish Tank Gallery, Monk Gallery, Schroeder Romero and The Front Room Gallery. Additionally it organized & hosted the largest public arts exhibition ever in Williamsburg with WINDOW SHOPPING. This six-block long exhibition featured thirty window installations on Bedford Ave. on the northside of Williamsburg, Brooklyn. eyewash also completed an 18 month window installation project showcasing emerging talent at the Girdle Factory Building on North 5th St. and Bedford Ave. eyewash also co-sponsored an evening of performance art at Union Pool with Pierogi Gallery in Fall '02. Additionally eyewash was invited to exhibit their artists at APEX Art in 2001. eyewash was founded in 1998 on the third floor of a residential building at 143 North 7th St. in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. In the fall of 2000 the NYC Dept. of Buildings inspected the exhibition space and ruled the rent-stabilzed building off-limits to non-living situations. After investigating a number of alternative locations it was decided to take eyewash on a tour of the Williamsburg neighborhood.