"Opportunity" Three Artists at Jay Grimm Gallery, Chelsea

	Opportunity - from February 22nd through March 23rd, 2002

Jay Grimm Gallery at 505 West 28th Street, New York, will hold an exhibition of work by William Eggleston, Jon McCafferty and Marcel Wanders from February 22nd through March 23rd, 2002. There will be a reception at the gallery on February 22nd from 6-8 P.M.

Space presents a challenge to the human mind, which must coherently organize visual data to survive. While the stakes are not as high in the case of pictorial space, the same strategies of perception apply. The act of looking has become supremely self-conscious, but perhaps extremely predictable. This exhibition will explore what happens when choices are made using unexpected criteria. The artists in the show are united by their willingness to consider and assimilate spontaneous reactions as well as the intuitive associations that occur when visually navigating within a finite space. "Opportunity" hopes to provide a chance for these issues to be finessed into solutions that are both surprising and meaningful.

Installation view of "Opportunity" with William Eggleston's photograph and Marcel Wander's chair.

William Eggleston's international reputation rests on his ground-breaking work of the mid-60s where he pioneered the use of color in fine-art photography. His subject matter-quotidian life of the southern United States-also caught viewers off-guard, as did his unorthodox camera angles and compositions. While these ideas have since become familiar, Eggleston was one of the first to incorporate them into his work. In "Opportunity"

Eggleston will exhibit a single recent image of sunlight pouring into a dark room. Quirky and full of soft, lush light, the photograph is a deceptively simple image of unanticipated slants and gradations. William Eggleston is represented by Cheim & Read Gallery, New York.

	"Opportunity" seen from outside Jay Grimm Gallery, with William Eggleston's photograph and Jon McCafferty's painting.

Jon McCafferty's abstract paintings consist of layers of translucent colors achieved through a time-consuming process of pouring oil and alkyd paint on wood. In "Opportunity", McCafferty will exhibit a new painting that marks a departure. While his earlier work employed all-over compositions, McCafferty has introduced a horizon line, creating a more overt sense of landscape. He now begins paintings by making drawings from topographical models, upon which he superimposes ribbons of color that follow the contours underneath. The build-up of fluid paint causes ripples and ridges on the surface of the work and the warping lines seem to oscillate towards and away from the viewer, reinforcing the idea of mapping a three-dimensional space.

Marcel Wanders is a Holland-based product designer who has worked with companies such as Apple Computer, Swatch, Virgin Atlantic and Habitat. Wanders will exhibit a limited-edition example of his well-known "Knotted Chair". "Knotted Chair" received the Rotterdam Design Prize in 1996 and is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Made from knotted rope which is impregnated with epoxy, the chair is, suprisingly, extremely light and strong. This sense of an unexpected, innovative and effective solution to an age-old challenge summarizes the curatorial intent of "Opportunity". Marcel Wanders is represented by Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York.

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