Amanda Mathis 2006
April 6, 2006- May 6, 2006
547 W 27th St
James Nicholson Gallery is pleased to present a sitespecific
installation by Brooklyn artist
Amanda Mathis. The exhibition will open on April 6th and
continue through May 6, 2006. This is Mathis’s debut gallery exhibition.
Amanda Mathis creates installations that straddle the line between art and architecture, altering
the viewer’s experience of a space. Using common building materials such as sheetrock and steel
studs, Mathis meticulously recreates a large section of a room – a wall, a doorway, a corner – and
places it within the room in unexpected ways.
In her installation at the gallery Mathis will create a full-scale facsimile of a 30-foot section of the
gallery’s east wall - complete with the doorway, base molding, built-in light, and odd corners of
the original. The new wall will be placed in the center of the gallery and cantilevered at an angle
to create the illusion that the wall is both falling away from the viewer and descending into the
gallery’s floor.
By copying an immediately recognizable element of a room, and then radically altering it,
Mathis’s work forces viewers to re-examine their relationship with their everyday surroundings.
Working on a cerebral as well as a physical level, Mathis’s installations place the viewer in an
uneasy environment that is at once familiar and profoundly disorienting. In doing so, Mathis
draws our attention to the subtleties of our surroundings and heightens our awareness of the
structures that encompass us.
Amanda Mathis has exhibited in group and solo shows in New York and Florida. Later this year
she will receive an M.F.A. from the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn.
Books and DVDs related to artists in this show| Location | map Location Closed | | Gallery | James Nicholson Gallery | | Address | 547 W 27th St, 2nd Fl
New York (Chelsea)
NY, 10001
United States | | Phone | 212-967-5700 | | Fax | 212-967-2769 | | Hours | Tue-Sat 11-6 | |
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