		Surface Tension July 26 - August 24, 2003 Opens Saturday, July 26, 8pm to late
Julie An Melissa Capasso David Cohen Karla Krupala Anahita Vossoughi		In a spectacular display of ingenuity five emerging artists reveal, bend, and reconfigure time, space and conventions. This exhibition confronts the viewer unashamedly by unveiling what's beneath a surface.

		The contorted display of the eroticized female body is the recurring theme of Julie An's photographs. The blatant exhibitionism and the exaggerated concessions the female figure makes to the spectator conveys the pliancy and sensuality of the exotic Other, but through an exaggerated accommodation also suggests that this is a prescribed and constricting role.
		Melissa Capasso utilizes organic composition as the language of her painting, while color emerges as the voice. Touching upon graffiti, modern commercialism, Pop, and the notion of "feminine" colors, Capasso reclaims and reaffirms the sensuality and emotional immediacy of the pallet.
		David Cohen's colorful new photography depicts army men as actors on an uncertain stage and explores life in its incalculable turbulence. This is an expressive body of work dealing with the loss and resurrection of innocence.
		Karla Krupala's paintings are rooted in the tradition of figure painting and portraiture. They extend the genre through the inclusion of other images, particularly still life, to constitute a wider form of portraiture. Her interest is in signs of identity, domesticity and desire.
		Anahita Vossoughi focuses on the male form, strength, power and eroticism, through paintings derived from images from popular wrestling magazines. She presents the male as a fantasy in hyper-real colors with overblown, bursting bodies and fleshy, aggressive interactions.

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