"PAUSE" September 27, 2007 through November 16, 2007

I seek to create experiences of quiet beauty and longing for pedestrians, the waking (and perhaps dreaming) lives of which are increasingly 
saturated with commercial moving imagery.  This exhibition is composed of a series of small screen meditations.

Video artists Beth Krebs, Gianluca Bianchino and Jenny Hyde have visions of a landscape beyond the constraints of pavement, beyond time, 
beyond borders, beyond even the body.  A similar interest in the edges of things, in the boundaries of the world experienced motivates 
Paul Gabel and Jesse Houlding.  

In Gianluca Bianchino's Momento, birds swarm in the sky in an almost unbearably lyrical shape.  In some forms of meditation, the aim is 
to transcend the daily experiences of being a constantly changing human being and allow for identification with a changeless reality.  

The Impossibility of Remaining by Paul Gabel focuses our attention for a few seconds on the simple and beautiful shape that is the human 
hand. A beam of light defines the edges of this shape. A shape that is each of us.

Jesse Houlding uses a ray of light shaped through a magnifying glass to contemplate the very nature of not what is real, but what is 
relevant. A magical realization takes us by surprise and leaves us light hearted.

Featuring the artist looking over and over again into the camera as time passes Beginnings and Endings by Jenny Hyde feels like a lifetime 
in a moment. All the contemplation of a lifetime, all the emotional speculation of a lifetime summed up in a few seconds repeating. 

A meditation on humor and simplicity, The Epic Voyage of the Vinyl Kontiki by Beth Krebs illustrates how easy is it to dream, to escape to 
and to find quiet places of rest inside ourselves. 

In "Pause," I seek to offer a few seconds of rest, reflection and meditation. 

JESSE HOULDING Artwork Bio Statement Email Personal Web Site		CLICK HERE to view a QuickTime of "Cone of the Known"
	"Cone of the Known" 2005 Light, Magnifying glass Variable size This piece presents an illusion of scientific certainty, it provides 'evidence' of the existence of the 'Cone of the Known,' and illustrates the ways we might correlate phenomena that have no real relationship.

JENNY HYDE Artwork Bio Statement Email Personal Web Site		CLICK HERE to view a QuickTime of "Beginnings & Endings"
	"Beginnings & Endings" 2006 Single Channel Video 3 min 40 sec From recordings of weekly visits to a chosen location, I worked with only the beginnings and endings of each video performance. I was interested in the moments in which I either turned towards or away from the camera. It was a study of the movements lined up with one another, a way to question the similarities and differences in repeated gesture through the progression of time.

GIANLUCA BIANCHINO Artwork Bio Statement Email
	"momento" 2006 Video "momento" is a video about time being trapped in an everlasting hypnotic experience. A fusion of nature and artificial imagery come together to establish a logic to the chaos in our universe. And yet there are beautiful patterns to be seen that are only possible through the random disruption of linearity. This is an amazingly harmonious event that is triggerd by a series of smaller chaotic bursts of energy. Life that is.	"momento" [video still] 2006 Video	"momento" [video still] 2006 Video	"momento" [video still] 2006 Video	"momento" [video still] 2006 Video

BETH KREBS Artwork Bio Statement Email Personal Web Site		CLICK HERE to view a QuickTime of "The Epic Voyage of the Vinyl Kontiki"
	"The Epic Voyage of the Vinyl Kontiki" 2007 video This small boat's treacherous journey across a waterbed celebrates everyday acts of heroism.

PAUL GABEL Artwork Bio Statement Email Personal Web Site		CLICK HERE to view a QuickTime of "The Impossibility of Remaining"
	"The Impossibility of Remaining" 2003 Digital Video 5 minutes The Impossibility of Remaining draws its interpretation from a selection of critical ideas addressed by Maurice Blanchot, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. Their complex notions on truth, essence, death and disaster resonate here in a reoccurring scene, where a corpse is cryptically unveiled and re-veiled by the passing over of a moving spotlight. "Before it is there, no one awaits it: when it is there, no one recognizes it: for it is not there – the disaster."~ Maurice Blanchot, from The Writing of the Disaster		"The Impossibility of Remaining" [video still] 2003	"The Impossibility of Remaining" [video still] 2003	"The Impossibility of Remaining" [video still] 2003	"The Impossibility of Remaining" [video still] 2003	"The Impossibility of Remaining" [video still] 2003