The nature of cloth, the fold, its structure, the ways in which it is thing and metaphor \u2013 The fact that its thingness is so slippery. When cloth is not made into a thing, a jacket a dress, it\u2019s thingness gets hard to pin down. Its scale can shift at a moment\u2019s notice, a handkerchief, a napkin, a sheet, a tarp, a sail. I find the physicality of closely observing, of reinventing the world, touching through observation, internalizing a curve, a fold, the material nature of our world, the substance of the thing itself and the substance of the stuff one can use to talk about the thing, a sensuous experience. When two categories of material collide in the making of the object, the disparity of structure, hard\/soft, rigid\/fluid, self-contained\/susceptible to their surrounding for their shape, I am interested. These anomalous juxtapositions that transpose givens, that belie our assumptions in ways that are clearly \u201coff\u201d, but that convince as a new whole, a new probability, that is both straight-forward and uncanny. In this installation\/exhibition I seek to enfold the viewer both externally and internally. Harry Roseman, December 2011<\/p>\n
The main part of the exhibition will be a site-specific black and white line drawing painted directly on the walls. Also included will be works linked thematically to the installation. The site-specific drawing will envelope the gallery in draping and folding cloth illusions. The two-dimensional soft flowing drapery as it winds through the space creates an idea of three-dimensionality. Fascinated by the dichotomy of opposites hard, soft, rigid, fluid, Roseman makes an exciting partnership between these contrasting elements. \u2013 Nancy Margolis Gallery Press release, December 2011<\/p>\n