The mobiles in Anne Eastman's show (Oh! László, That Temporal Pull, Always Present Gap, Nothing That Is Can Pause Or Stay) are beautifully handcrafted, balanced, minimal sculptural objects made of wood, mirrors and fishing line. Two videos in the exhibition (The Intention of the Device and You Are Not Just a Meaningless Fragment) are made from the placement of the mobiles in different physical locales and situations: the African Art Collection in the Yale University Art Gallery (designed by Louis Kahn), and a white cube, with optical patterns on the walls and a changing cast of viewers appearing in the mobile's mirrors. The third, Hand Held Moon, is a solitary video meditation outside at night.

We enter the space of the mobiles and the eye of the camera from the same vantage point as Eastman, thus reminding us of something that's often lost: the art object can be in complete service to the viewer. Gazing at the mobile sculptures and the videos, walking around them and through them and entering their spaces allows you the freedom to ask any question, without the anxiety of having to produce an answer. To have any thought, without the fear of thinking about what should come next. You are allowed to stay right where you are, or to go as deep as you'd like. The delicate motion and soft repetition encourages you to see the surface, peak on the visuals, at the masks peering at you and your own reflection fragmented and fleeting, and at space itself broken up and inter-spliced into more dimensions than you've ever seen before.
There's also the possibility, and perhaps the gentle suggestion, that the viewer become completely lost in reflections about what is in front of them: juxtapositions of vastly different cultural aesthetics and ideologies, the subjective, invisible and endless nature of time and, as a witness to the permanence of change, the reality or unreality of one's very existence.

Inspired by the Constructivists' use of simple devices for abstraction, like Moholy-Nagy's Light Space Modulator, as well as Picasso and Braque's attempts to collapse space and alter form, these works are crafted to access different versions of reality that are somehow still resolutely our own. Like a witch or a magician harnessing the elements Eastman uses wood, heat, the moon, mirrors and air, clueing us in to what she sees just below the surface of the visual world. A spell's been cast, though there's no secret to how it's happening, and no guarding the magic.
- Kate Rosko

Anne Eastman lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA in Cultural Anthropology from Smith College in 1997 and her MFA from Yale University in 2006. She has exhibited her work in the US and internationally, including solo exhibitions at Groeflin Maag Galerie in Basel, Switzerland and at LISTE '08; and group exhibitions at ATM gallery, NY; V&A Gallery, New York; PPOW Gallery, NY; Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn; China Art Objects, LA; Kate Macgarry, London; HVCCA, Peekskill, NY; The General Store, Milwaukee; Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NY; and Daniel Reich Gallery, NY.