For immediate release

04/06/2011

UBIQUITOUS: LUCY KIM and JANOS STONE

April 12 to May 8, 2011

Opening reception: Thursday, April 14, 2011, 6 pm to 8 pm

Slag Gallery is pleased to announce the opening of ”UBIQUITOUS” a two-artist exhibition featuring recent works by Lucy Kim and Janos Stone.

Kim and Stone invite the viewer to critically examine their respective artistic journey of redefining two widespread materials, foil and Gypsum Board. Kim’s and Stone’s odyssey from Ordinary to Extraordinary exudes not only unique sensibilities, but also a keen understanding of the material and its array of possibilities.

Lucy Kim’s foil paintings investigate surface as a way of rethinking the space between and around things. Her work draws from 17th and 18th century European still life painting as it relates to contemporary photographic advertisements of luxury objects. Her points of interest range from food, such as bread and potatoes, as commodities with status tiers, to the figure as an arranged object providing a context for commodity displays.

Kim holds an MFA in painting from Yale University School of Art, MFA Painting (New Haven, CT) and a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI) and she was also the recipient of renowned Carol Schlosberg Memorial Prize, Yale School of Art (New Haven, CT)

Kim’s exhibitions include:

2011 Texture.txt, Regina Rex Gallery (Queens, NY)

2010 Lucy Kim and Jee Soo Lee, Tiger Strikes Asteroid (Philadelphia, PA)

Mind Sets 2010, Gallery at Haskins Research Lab (New Haven, CT)

2009 Oscillate Wildly, Vaudeville Park (Brooklyn, NY)

The Highlights, CSV Cultural Center (New York, NY)

The Best Rapper Alive, Bushwick Starr (Brooklyn, NY)

2008 Artcrush, Presented by Jenny Jaskey Gallery (Philadelphia, PA)

Inaugural group exhibition, Cabernet Initiative (Brooklyn, NY)

Janos Stone specializes in creating sculpture that is this hybrid of humanity, emotion and technology. In his work, he delicately hand carves gypsum board polyhedron, creating metaphors life online. Stone uses his unique/rare abilities to look inside contemporary materials and techniques and pull out the soft supple qualities of humanity and balance them against the rigid mathematics of the pixilated world. His work is what we see when we look at the Internet: function and communication well as the fingerprint of the human creator.

Stone holds an MFA in sculpture from Boston University, Boston, MA, and a BFA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. Stone is a lecturer and critic at multiple New York and New England universities.

Stone’s previous solo exhibitions include:

2011 Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable From Magic

The Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY,

2010 Any Sufficiently Advanced Technology Is Indistinguishable From Magic,

Curated: Helene Necreto & Cecelia Stucker, Art Basel Miami Beach, FL

2010 LMIRL,

Slag Gallery, Chelsea, NY

2010 A/S/L/

NoGlobe Project Space, Brooklyn, NY,

2009 CHATROOM,

Sampson Projects, Boston, MA.

Stone’s work has been included in the following group exhibitions:

2011 Netiquette, Camel Art Space

2010 Sanity Disobedience For a New Frontier, Camel Art Space, Brooklyn, NY

2010 Boston Related, Forth Wall Project, Boston, MA

2010 Group Show, Farm Gallery, Wellfleet, MA

2010 Art and Mathematics, B55 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

“UBIQUITOUS” will remain on view through May 8, 2011.

SLAG Gallery specializes in contemporary art and is operated by owner and director Irina Protopopescu.

SLAG Gallery is located at 531 West 25 ^th Street, Ground Floor, suite 10. (Between 10 ^th and 11 ^th Avenues).

Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 am to 6 pm.

For press inquiries and reproductions contact Irina Protopopescu, 917 977 1848.

For general inquiries, contact the gallery at 212 967 9818.