Exhibitions: Fay Ku

Gallery Art on View
December 20th 2011 – March 1st 2012

Mind the Gap
November 21st 2008 – January 3rd 2009

"Mind the Gap" is a ubiquitous warning to passengers on the London Underground to watch their step and avoid a potentially calamitous fall between the platform and the train. It represents a simple warning, a reminder to follow the rules and play it safe. But what of those who carelessly - or defiantly - do not mind the gap?

Curator Cyndi Conn, Visual Arts Director of the Center for Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, has selected six artists who dwell in the gap between fact and imagination: Rita Bard, Jennifer Hoag, Fay Ku, Katherine Lee, Kim Russo and Tuscany Wenger. These artists create distinct mythologies of striking, strange creatures, disjointed everyday imagery and stories half-told in rebellious, hallucinatory narratives. By choosing to work in the gap, rather thatn on either side of it, they explore and enlighten the tenuous space between transparency and mystery, humor and tragedy.

Once There Was, Once There Wasn't: Fairy Tales Retold
October 14th 2007 – November 6th 2007

With works by a number of artists, including Jim Dine, David Hockney, Peregrine Honig, Fay Ku, Elizabeth "Grandma" Layton, Adela Leibowitz, David Levinthal, Paula Rego, Kiki Smith, and Richard Tuttle the exhibition illuminates and challenges the traditional interpretations of fairy tales. Stories heard in childhood exert a powerful pull on the artists participating in Once There Was, who take on the powerful role of storyteller and the task of mythopoesis, of creating and renewing meaning. Their modern reworkings of old tales draw upon familiar narratives and imagery for their cultural resonance.