BRUCE BROSNAN: "Penumbra,"
2005, MDF and acrylic paint;
54 x 64 x 19”

Bruce Brosnan humors sculpture. His formal structures sport the decorative with hints of personality. One moment architecture and the next a creature. Light sources and their shadows complicate matters and ignite the resonance. The use of the shadows is an interesting way to get the work to refer to itself, keeping us too in the object. I’ve
always enjoyed the upbeat pace and the way that deflects the weighty traditions in formalism. As well, focusing the work on the wall rather than on the floor is a pleasant nod to painting, which his use of color clearly indicates. Yet he doesn’t get into the fussy aspects of paint application, keeping it all flat and graphic, close enough but far
enough away, no strings attached.

Bruce Brosnan lives in Brooklyn. He was born in Hartford, CT in 1968 and
has an MFA from Hunter College. This is his third solo exhibition at
Feature Inc.

TOADHOUSE: "Shit is a Sure Sign of Life," 2006, graphite on paper; 34 x 30.25”

Toadhouse texts revel in the luscious materiality of graphite and abandon themselves in the development of a personal aesthetic within the rigor of calligraphy. Their top to bottom reading allows their left to right reading to belong to a vaguely familiar and amusing foreign tongue. Viewers, readers, and re-readers become engaged in the
multiplicity of language and the pleasure of the infantile sounding out of syllables and how that nonsense ends up with meaning. And with Toadhouse, meaning is a thing. His statements park somewhere between Eastern philosophies and bumper stickers. Grasping them usually inflates one’s social consciousness, not at all a bad thing in this day and age, crossing one back and forth between the realms of poetry, politics and
aesthetics.

Toadhouse lives in a solar powered home in the mountains east of Santa Fe.
Born Allan Graham in San Francisco in 1947, he attended San Francisco Art Institute, 1965, and received his BFA from University of New Mexico, 1967. He has exhibited widely since 1985, and his work is included in numerous public collections including Villa Menafoglio Little Panza, Varase, Italy, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia and Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado. This is the first Toadhouse exhibition with Feature Inc.

TRACY MILLER: "Volare," 2006, oil paint on canvas; 54 x 48”

Tracy Miller celebrates the melting pot of life through her paintings that eagerly hip hop not only between abstraction and representation but also between landscape and still life. They shout signals for high, low, medium, and wavy. Lots of indulgences surface in her voluptuous soup of oneness.

Tracy Miller lives in Brooklyn, NY. She was born in Storm Lake, Iowa,
1966, and obtained her MFA from University of California at Berkeley, 1993.