JESSICA MURRAY PROJECTS
210 NORTH 6TH STREET
BROOKLYN, NY 11211
718.963.0933
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Jessica Murray Projects is pleased to announce "Broken Can" by Peter Eide and in the drawing room "Bindi Pop" by Stacy Greene. Both exhibitions will open on Friday, May 10 with a reception from 6-9 PM. Gallery hours are Friday through Sunday, 12- 6 PM. "Broken Can" and "Bindi Pop" will run through June 16 (closed Memorial Day weekend.)

MAIN GALLERY

For Peter Eide's first solo exhibition, "Broken Can," he transforms everyday objects into modernist artworks. In his first series, the artist converts mundane metal garbage cans into post-Chamberlain, post-macho sculptures. Titled "Jaw Breaker,"" Mars" and "The Spider," these works are crafted by smashing the can's shining surface into a brick wall with a car, then painting them with colored auto enamel, producing small, clean, metal abstractions. To complement these sculptures, a video of this repetitious smashing, reveals his inane, modest sculptural practice. For "Cloud," Eide anchors a cluster of thirty inflated car airbags to the ceiling. Sewn together these pristine white forms create a life scale model. In another series, the artist begins with twenty household mirrors, etching their surfaces with symmetrical drawings that he has collected. Included are three melded Rorschach plates, titled "Eccentric Cathedral," and, "Orchid," a mirror image of a drawing by his five-year-old nephew. Eide has been included in exhibitions in New York, Berlin and Stockholm.

DRAWING ROOM

In the drawing room, Jessica Murray Projects is pleased to announce "Bindi Pop" by Stacy Greene. As the West became enamored with the spiritual meaning and decorative potential of the bindi, Greene began collecting these brightly colored and sparkling symbols of the "third eye." From her collection she has created "Bindi Pop," a series of mandala collages made up of an endless array hot pink, grass green, iridescent and diamond surfaces (to name only a few). Stacy Greene's work is also included in the "Paris/ Brooklyn Exchange" at Galerie Eric Dupont in Paris.

Jessica Murray Projects, located at 210 North 6th Street in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, is housed in a renovated 19th century garage. Programming includes solo and curated exhibitions of work in all media by emerging artists, drawing room presentations, publications and other events.

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