“Beyond Plastic” was a group show of artists (Julie Allen, Benicia Gantner, Connie Harris, Julia Latané, Robert Strati and Jil Weinstock) working with plastic and its dérivés such as latex, vinyl, rubber and tape. Their work addressed issues of beauty, consumption, preservation, and space. From wedding cakes made of balloons to giant folds of stretched clear tape, these artists use mass produced materials to create one-of-a-kind objects blurring the lines between natural and fake beauty.

Sid Garrison has pushed the boundaries of colored pencil for sometime now. His drawings are a collective of marks, overlays and smudges while colors and shapes find comfort with one another. Using curiosity and an incremental approach of accumulated marks, Garrison seeks to discern and strengthen the drawing’s internal balance with gradual permutations of space, depth and suggested movement.

Since the early nineties, Jil Weinstock has chosen rubber as the medium to which she at times has added garments, zippers, pins, or pearls. Rubber is an irresistible medium for Weinstock to work with as it can take many different qualities.

“Lines & Curves” was a multi media group exhibition presenting the work of several artists working in different mediums but all concerned with line – the essential building block of drawings, paintings, architecture and sculpture. The artists all use the line as a basic element of geometry although the tools they employ range from software art to charcoal.

Greene defines herself as “an artist using paint” and not as a “painter”. Starting with the simplest representation - a mark out of a tube she uses a ruler and graph paper to build relationships, charts and systems, which she then removes, isolating the results. With different paint for different reactions, she proceeds as though conducting an investigation, to see how far she can push the medium.

There are no people in Weng’s compositions and deliberately so, as the narration of the painting is focused on the TV screen. Weng often asks what is this power of the TV that is casting a spell over the masses. For him, it is not a political ideology, but simply political.