Foundations 

Kimberly Mayhorn + AV Ryan

on view: March 4 - April 9, 2017

Foundations is an exhibition of new sculpture by two mid-career artists, whose work reflects their opposing views on the grid. 

Kimberly Mayhorn sees the world "as a lexicon of invisible grids, how bodies move through a series of forced structures that dictate our movements in space." She constructs her sculptures with industrial materials - steel, cement, brick, wood and plaster, and strips away to the initial purpose of the materials. It frees the material from its established connotations, and lets the artist use it to create contemporary works. Architecture and building are always part of Mayhorn’s work, and she likens it to the idea that building a strong foundation that can support any unexpected additional weight applied to it, should stand as a metaphor for people, creating strong systems that will support us as people and as a race.  

AV Ryan makes sculpture that stands "as a foil to the grid and everything the grid excludes, all that pulsing, living, breathing life." Her elegant forms, set atop pedestals, draw on long standing traditions of sculpture with allusions to the body and draperies. Ryan's forms are seemingly undulating and round; she builds them up slowly, using thin layers of paper, joint compound and gessoes. They allude to the body and to cloth without being quite either; and these large sculptures exhude the pleasure of touching and to be touched.  

DIRECTIONS:

Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:

FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Laurie Cumbo, the Greenwich Collection, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Lily Auchincloss Foundation, the Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation, and Humanities NY.