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No Person Is Without A Shadow: Manuel Angeja and Laurie ReidPost an Event »
Laurie Reid and Manuel Angeja both embrace practices that emphasize materiality, allowing for fluidity and ambiguity. In each, loose mark making and subtle washes, suggest and deny meaning.
In their exhibition together, they present works that echo and mirror one another, like shadows - shadowing one another as artists - objects, paintings, and marks within the works, shadowing each other and the space in which they are installed, and vice versa.
Reid contributes several small water colors and a series of small, glazed ceramics that are so integrated with the space that they are at times difficult to discover. Meanwhile, Angeja presents a number of works, including binders full of small paintings on graph paper, which are installed on a low table. Gallery visitors are invited to leaf through them.
There is a subtle building of relationships and connections within and across works, allowing for shifting relationships and interpretations to emerge. What is real, the original or its shadow, and which work is by what artist is not important. Rather, the fluidity of relationships, a kind of slippage or interchange is highlighted.