eyewash@ Gallery Boreas presents Size Does Matter eyewash@Boreas 133-A Roebling Ave. Brooklyn Opens to the public on Friday, April 16th through May 15. OPENING RECEPTION:Friday, April 23 7-9pm SIZE DOES MATTER is a drawing exhibition featuring the work of Brooklyn artists David Brody, Lorie Ellison, Amy Kao, Il Lee, Joan Linder and Berlin-based artist Laura Bruce. David Brody has been creating large-scale drawings on walls as site-specific installations utilizing the isometric grid in building up "inscrutable patterns that bite". He will execute a large drawing on the back walls of the gallery. Il Lee creates large abstract fields of pen strokes on paper using hundreds of the same Bic ball point pen type. Joan Linder uses various colored inks on large pieces of paper to render inanimate objects. Her rendering of a tree encompass' most of the gallery wall and continues onto the gallery floor. Amy Kao utilizes a field of graphite 'markings' in her large incremental compositions on paper. Lorie Ellison uses her own name while utilizing blue ball point pens & dozens of smaller pieces of paper to create one large singular composition. Laura Bruce uses members of her family as subjects in her large drawings of colored pencil renderings. The isolated figures take on an additional visual tension as the artist allows them to float in negative space. Collectively this collection of talent offers us a peak at the options of directions in large-scale drawing being created in New York City. In all instances these artists are not concerned in using drawing as working-sketches but rather in drawing as finished art each using scale to better facilitate that notion. David Brody Elbow site specific drawing. For Additional Exhibition Previews

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.