>July 11-September 28, 2008

Transformed

Transformed is a group exhibition of two-dimensional, sculptural, installation, and video works that address the unrestrained potential of the mundane. Familiar, domestic, and mass-produced goods become sublime environments and art objects that transcend their former everyday roles in our lives. Elevation of the ordinary to the status of art challenges our understanding of the physical and conceptual potential within the objects that engage us on a daily basis. Artists in the exhibition include Matt Calderwood, Ya Ya Chou, Tim DeVoe, Tara Donovan, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Chris Jordan, Robert Lazzarini, Rachel Perry Welty, Steven Siegel,  Yuken Teruya, and Shirley Tse.

>June 26-September 28

Liz Miller: Self-Sustaining Debacle

Liz Miller attaches thousands of pieces of vividly colorful felt, nylong, paper and plastic to gallery walls, floors and ceilings using adhesive and pins. These elegantly simplified shapes are compressed in intricate patterns referencing technological, scientific and natural structures.

Liz Miller, Vociferous Transmissions, 2006

>October 16-December 30

Michael Scoggins

Michael Scoggins monumentally enlarges the childhood drawings, homework assignments, and journal entries his mother saved during his school days. To do so, he meticulously recreates giant sheets of notebook and graph paper complete with binder holes and ragged edges. Onto these rather austere surfaces, with an easy hand, he copies his childhood hand. There is a nostalgic heroism to Scoggins’s art, most apparent in his "trading cards," images of invented superheroes with names like Power, Captain X and Steel.

Michael Scoggins, Giant Juicy Mouth, 2008