GEOMETRIC NOTIONS
Featuring work by Sam Duket, Marketa Klicova, Matthew Murphy, and Cheryl Robinson
November 3 - December 8, 2006

This exhibit features the work of four artists who have a history of being part of a vital community of painters nurtured at Mass Art. The show includes their recent work as individuals, and an in-situ collaboration. Each of the artists has an interest in how the architecture of space
is articulated within the two-dimensional picture plane, the spectrum of this ranging from the use of geometric forms to convey multi-dimensional readings, to the use of expressive mark-making as a system of tracking, mapping, and transforming space.

The installation component of the show exhibits their collective energies on the back wall of the gallery. Guidelines exist for the progression and sequencing of the work, as each artist reacts to the work of the previous artist (or artists) by either embracing it or going against it. This collective painting is founded upon a basic inquisitiveness about the notion of working outside of one's individual boundaries, testing those boundaries, and in an open-ended way, finding harmonies between different artistic approaches. The creation of the installation will be documented and a short movie will be available for art educators.