Laurel Lukaszewski and Noelle Tan at 505 9th Street
April 26, 2009
Laurel's scupture and Noelle's photograph
Laurel and curator Elizabeth Newton - two happy gals!
While commercial gallery exhibition space is shrinking as galleries shutter their doors, exhibition spaces in the public lobbies of opulent downtown office buildings proliferates. I suspect this is all more or less reflective of the same dynamic – the crummy economy that affects commercial galleries has also left many new office buildings with space to rent and motivation to expose their buildings to new people.
Laurel and a lawyer
Whatever, it’s a good thing to have new art spaces and these guys throw a nice reception. Laurel Lukaszewski and Noelle Tan have a small and elegant show in the lobby of 505 9th Street NW, curated by Jean Efron. It is all black and white, like the expanse of marble around it. Laurel’s wonderful black ceramic sculptures, made of hundreds of interlinked loose coils of black clay, look like they have suspended the laws of gravity. Noelle’s spare large-scale photographs are delicate and mysterious.
