January 9 - February 13, 2010


opening reception for the artists:
Saturday, January 9, 2010  5:30 - 8:30pm

Annabel Daou
repaired landscapes

Annabel Daou's newest works are visual documentations of time and place that employ words, numbers, sentence fragments and quotations in layers of torn and bound paper that form what Daou refers to as "repaired landscapes." Visually, the concatenated lines of text form landscapes that push and pull through amorphous atmospheres. The chains of text document a variety of subjects including the hours and minutes spent on a flight from New York to Tokyo and a chronological listing of various historical events that have taken place during the month of September.
Each of the works is a place in time that indicates a moment somewhere and an attempt to linger within the inevitable impermanence of the moment.

left: Annabel Daou, repaired landscape: minutes days (detail), 2009,
           ink on paper, 16x16"
right: Annabel Daou, repaired landscape: out of place, out of time, 2009

C. Meng

Beijing Diary

C. Meng's Beijing Diary is a pictorial body of small-scale drawings that document his nine-month residence in Beijing, China in 2009. The images recall the tradition of genre painting, capturing candid scenes of daily life and are worked very quickly, seemingly rendered on site as Meng explored the everyday street life of contemporary China.

In the fall of 2009, Beijing Diary was exhibited at the Miami University Art Museum where Meng also presented a talk describing the contemporary visual art and artists he came across during his extended stay in China.

left: Untitled (microphone), 2009, mixed media on paper, 26x30"
right: Untitled (painting), 2009, mixed media on paper, 26x30"

PROJECT ROOM

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum

In Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum's mixed media drawings and collages, the artist's alter-ego heroine, Asme traverses an imagined landscape, exploring and searching through ideas of cultural identity and her own diasporic upbringing. Within this world (in each drawing) Asme is re-created time and time again, communicating to her other-selves a cultural and personal understanding through ritual, play and mythology.

Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum was born in Mochudi, Botswana and grew up living throughout Africa and southeast Asia. In 2004, she earned a BA with Highest Honors in International Studies with a concentration in Trans-national Cultures from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 2007 earned an MFA from the Mt Royal School of Art at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally and in 2008 was included in the exhibition Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image since 1970 at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX. Pamela Sunstrum lives and works in Baltimore, Maryland.

image: Pamela Sunstrum, edging, 2009, pencil on paper, 15x15"