image: Mary A. Valverde, Fractal Forms, 2008, wood, ink and acrylic, variable dimensions
Mary A. Valverde
Mappings and Transformations

Corridor Gallery Brooklyn
On view February 4 - March 28, 2009

Informed by memory, ritual and native South American culture, Mary A. Valverde's drawings and installations reveal a connection between common every-day objects and the various systems that governs our lives. The use of materials such as salt and copper pennies in her installations, show a conversion of the ordinary into the divine. The complex geometric designs and organic shapes in her drawings are inspired by ancient Incan calendars and cubic mathematics. Valverde's work serves as mappings of cultural migration and transformation.

Mary A. Valverde received her BFA at the School of Visual Arts in 1999. Valverde's exhibitions include "Fragmentations of the Self" at Rush Arts Gallery, 2006; "Queens International 2006" at the Queens Museum of Art, 2006; "Tropicalisms" at the Jersey City Museum, NJ 2006; "Black Rock" at Gallery Aferro, NJ, 2007; "S-Files 2007" at El Museo del Barrio, NY, 2007; and "Emerge 8" at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, NJ, 2007. Valverde was born in Queens, NY and currently lives and works in New York City.

Guest Curator: Rose Ojo

image: Florence Neal, Runes, 2008, found pine charcoal on paper
Florence Neal
Out of the Woods

Corridor Gallery Brooklyn Project Space
Opening reception, Sunday, February 1, 4 - 6 PM
On view February 4 - March 28, 2009

Out of the Woods is an exhibition of block prints and drawings by Alabama born, Red Hook, Brooklyn-based artist Florence Neal. Neal's goal is to question the notion of the known, whether in or out of the woods. To do so she will transform the gallery space into an arboretum of graphic explorations of leaves and trees. Neal will install the work so as to create a dialogue between individual works - a conversation between bold and subtle images in different mediums reflecting on observations from the woods.

Florence Neal has exhibited her work throughout the United States, the Netherlands and the Czech Republic. In 2008 she was an artist in Residence at The Banff Centre, Leighton Artists' Colony, Banff, Alberta, Canada; in 2007 she was a 2007 Nominee for the prestigious Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award and she is a recipient of a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. In addition to her own studio practice, Florence Neal is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of Exhibitions of Kentler International Drawing Space, a not-for-profit exhibition space located in Red Hook, Brooklyn.

Curator: Meridith McNeal, Director of Education

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