May 21, 2011, Saturday - The Erasers Opening Reception at the The Soap Factory

Time: 7:00pm - 11:00pm

Location: The Soap Factory, 518 Second Street SE

Exhibit Runs: May 21 - July 17, 2011

Curator Corinna Kirsch brings together artists from the United States and Europe for an exhibition mixing the formal language of minimal and conceptual art with the intimacy of personal cultural memory.

A thing is never a mere thing, an eraser is never just an eraser. The works in The Erasers act as gathering points for what has been lost or forgotten through time. As such labyrinthine objects, an emphasis on materials pervades the works’ surfaces that are sometimes roughly assembled, sometimes delicate, and other times highly polished. In this exhibition, the artists utilize the deceptiveness of materials, embracing the stream of dislocations found in life where at one moment objects, like ourselves, are one thing and in the very next breath, another.

The Erasers features works emblazoned with melodrama, humor, and beauty – like a sigh or a gasp for authenticity in the oftentimes brash and overly ironic air of contemporary art.