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World without End

June 8, 2006- July 29, 2006

Bayard, Hilary Brace, Chris Duncan, Sara Eichner, Chris Gallagher, Michelle Hinebrook, Yayoi Kusama, Jean Lowe, Robert Mangold, David Mann, Antonio Murado, Ivan Navarro, Aric Obrosey, Marilla Palmer, Scott Peterman, Barbara Takenaga, Sarah Walker, Frank Yamrus

McKenzie Fine Art

511 W 25th St



The infinite is a concept which people have struggled to grasp and to communicate since the beginning of self-conscious thought. Mythology, religion, cosmology, philosophy, and science all provide conceptual models of infinity which visual artists have adapted to their needs over the ages. Pascal's familiar quotation, "Nature is an infinite sphere of which the center is everywhere and the circumference nowhere," suggests the difficulty of visually representing infinity. Artists have approached the problem in many ways over the centuries. In science the symbol for infinity is a horizontal figure eight, based on the Mobius strip, a two-dimensional �endless� surface. In paintings and drawings spirals and circular compositions imply a never-ending spatial depth and movement. The multiplication of geometric patterns, with the implication of endless repetition, is another manner in which artists have chosen to depict the infinite. Other devices include the use of mirrors, dramatic scale shifts, or vast vistas, of both landscapes and imaginary representations of the cosmos.

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