FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PROJECT ROOM
VIDEO FORGE
MARCH 9 THROUGH MARCH 16, 2005

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Jessica Murray Projects is pleased to announce VIDEO FORGE featuring video
work by Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, Carrie Dashow with Josh Weinstein, Chris
Doyle, David Ellis, Sofia Hulten, Rachel Mason, and Samuael Topiary with
E.E. Miller. Exploring architecture and landscape as a location for a new
underlying anxiety, this selection of work investigates our subliminal fears
and the coping mechanisms we have developed.

Further incorporating watercolor with video, Chris Doyle, creates two
animations: Freezeframe (2004), a view from his studio window of an austere
industrial park, and Watershed (2004), an unfinished skeletal building or
greenhouse. The artist activates these desolate yet magnetic environments
with a crescendo of lights and figures.

Carrie Dashow and Josh Weinstein’s Investigating Cohabitation (2003-04) is a
two camera investigation of the couple’s own cohabitation, which leads the
viewer on a journey through an vacant 1959 edifice by Le Corbusier.

Samuael Topiary and E.E. Miller’s short animation, Gum and Tea (2005),
juxtaposes engraved imagery from dollar bills with an interview about the
role of the Presidency and oral fixation.

In Blowback (2005), Karina Aguilera Skvirsky promenades images of victims of
war and natural disaster through Central Park. Appearing and disappearing in
the landscape, these familiar people, sampled from international media
sources, inhabit the local landscape, mining the city’s anxiety and fear.

Rachel Mason’s video Wall (2001) captures the artist scaling the side of a
building in a silver helmet and body suit. Balancing on thin rods that
project from the exterior, tension escalates as Mason attempts to reach the
top.

In David Ellis’ Truck (2004), the artist paints and repaints the facade of a
truck with his signature grafitti style. Calagraphic landscape melts into
animal portraits; trees sprout stereo speakers, and the letters “w” “e”
build into an airplane. Ellis’ painted environment highlights the
ever-changing relationship between art and life.

In Preparations for Uncertain Doom (2003), Sofia Hulten makes futile
preparations for a shaky future. Stuffing pillow batting into the orifices
of a light socket and wedging a comforter beneath the slats of wooden
flooring, Hulten references the prudishness of society and our desire to
hide our sexual lives from the public.

For more information, please contact the gallery at 212 633 9606 or
info@jessicamurrayprojects.com.

Further details are available in Gallery Information.