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Harris
Lieberman, in collaboration with Magen H Gallery, XX Century Design, is pleased
to present Structure et Surface,
an exhibition of current and selected past works from four master innovators of
modern design. Jim Cole, Howard Meister, Terence Main and Forrest Myers were
seminal members of the Art et Industrie movement; merging craft and concept
into singular works of art while creating a new platform for the decorative
arts.
Jim Cole's recent work continues a long tradition of personal expression using
an established language of form. Each work is a unique investigation of a
particular idiom. Cole considers his works to be, in the simplest terms, poetic
statements. He deliberately limits his formal choices through process, interested
in the range of expression within his chosen parameters. The highly expressive
surfaces reflect Cole's personal history without dictating emotion, engendering
a new response for each viewer. Jim Cole's work is included in the permanent
collections of institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the The American Craft Museum.
Terence Main's work redefines the boundaries between art and design. The
biomorphic elements of his works recall the fossilized remains of ancient
creatures and vegetation. Overall, they often have the look and feel of natural
phenomena rather than crafted objects. Looking outside the boundaries of
classicism, Main responds to the rich material
of primitive art with furniture that intimates the power of animist belief
throughout human culture. A graduate of the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Main's work is now in the collections of the Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art and the Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum,
among others, and has been featured in numerous publications and exhibitions
worldwide, including: Modern Furniture, The Metropolitan Museum; Art and Application, Turbulence, NY.
Howard Meister is a fifth generation furniture maker. For this exhibition he
has created four new works using metal and silicone, a process that he began in
1991. In these current works he plays with our expectations of common objects.
Though Meister rarely deviates from the iconic form of a chair or table, he
challenges the idea of solidity and clearly defined surfaces, boundaries and
borders through his use of materials. Referencing Gerhard Richter's
"Abstract Paintings", Meister's layers of silicone disassemble
decorative expectations, evoking visceral reactions from the most commonplace
of objects. Meister's work has been exhibited and collected by many museums
including The Art Museum at the Rhode Island School of Design, The American
Craft Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and The Art Institute of Chicago.
Aside from their obvious conceptual inventiveness, Forrest Myers' works have an
inherent integrity of form and clarity of statement. They hold their own space
in a dichotomous combination of rigidity and looseness. The result is not
"art that is about something", but "art that is something".
His early influences - jazz and Calder's wire sculptures - can be seen in his
recent works of densely woven anodized wire. A master metalworker, whose
attention to detail is readily apparent, Myers achieves an incredible depth of
color in his painted surfaces by manipulating the inherent properties (iron and
copper oxides, cobalt, etc.) of the metal itself. Forrest Myers' sculpture was
recently made part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art's
sculpture garden. Myers is also known for "The Wall," the 1972 art
installation at Houston and Broadway, New York.
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