18 February - 25 March 2006 North Gallery: Lucky DeBellevue Sculpture and Paintings South Gallery: Tyler Vlahovich Recent Work Mezzanine: Howard Johnson Drawings from "Enpsycholphilia, Hexsexus Series"
		Lucky DeBellevue considers his work, among other things,as high art filtered through a working class lens. Though not overtly political, there is a commentary involved in the do-it-yourself approach and his use of nontraditional art materials that one might find in craft or hardware stores, items which generally lend themselves to linear and repetitive ways of building. These materials are often suggestive of their function, but not bound by it, and in doing so, create amusement and wonder. Recent use of more intense colors and metallic give some of the sculpture an amusing, fay/fey, glam quality. Sometimes this is convoluted by the inclusion of a crutch, walker, or piece of furniture for the infirmed, unapologetically adding illness, aging, and deformity to the mix.Many of Lucky DeBellevue’s sculptural objects are built out of chenille stems (aka pipe cleaners) using a free form personal system of weaving, which has its own logic. The result is something that exists somewhere between painting, drawing, and sculpture.
		Paintings, drawings, and sculpture by Tyler Vlahovich usually appear faceted, fractured, cut up and/or pushed together. The elements are generally soft-edged, muddied color shapes, marks, lines, and blotches seemingly agitated, as if in search of their place among the crowd, perhaps a bit horny. While the scale of the paintings, subdued colors, and simple paint applications shoot sidelong glances at early 20th century easel painting, the totality of the work extends out to our contemporary emotional, psychological, and sensual experiences. A personal narrative seems to direct the making of these paintings and drawings, yet they never reveal any such thing. They remain specific yet vague, familiar and odd, old and new.
		Enpsychophilia is Howard Johnson’s darkly humorous and contrived encyclopedia composed of random personal. historical, and fantasy images. It is an ongoing five year project of 50 - 60 works on paper dwelling on social, political, aesthetic, sexual, and occult matters. Shape shifting collaged, drawn, and painted elements illuminate a commentary on the ghostly reverse side of found architectural plans.