APRIL 15 - 30

White Box @ The Annex:
601 W. 26th St., 14th floor, NYC 10001 646-638-3785

Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 17th 2003 6 - 8 pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Saturday, 11 - 6 pm

GUN & WOUND is the first in a series of three multi-media shows with adiptych construction. Each title is related in concept but not in context.Given the current world politic, the intention of this exhibition is toinvigorate flux and self-reflection by deliberately using Śloaded1 imagery.GUN & WOUND addresses the controversial employment and media persona of gunswhile contemplating the impermanence and adaptability of the human body. Itdoes not aim to proselytize right vs. wrong, nor A = B but rather offers acreative platform through irony, beauty, and juxtaposition.

Elizabeth Alderman, Chad Kleistch, Erik BakkeCharles Krafft, Tom Burtonwood & Holly Holmes, Carter Kustera, Margaret Carlton, Rebecca Major & Sophie Malleret, Theo Coulombe & Jameson Ellis, Christopher Meehan, Burr DoddRonald Parisi, Christopher Draeger, Javier Pinon, Mark & Matt Enger, Ann Sappenfield, Rosemarie Fiore, Stephen J. Shanabrook, Thomas Florschuetz, Koji Shimizu, Margaret Evangeline, Janice Sloane, Harold Garrison, Albert Wilking, Luke Joerger, Jeff Wyckoff,

Alisoun Meehan is an artist and curator of alternative art exhibitions in NYC. For several years she has been producing an on-going series of public,food themed art shows called DINING HAUL. Alisoun Meehan draws wall-sizedimages of food and curating was a way to immediately exhibit her and her peers artworks. She has used lofts, moving trucks that were parked in Chelsea, a pastry kitchen where world renown pastry chefs were paired upwith emerging artists in collaborative projects, in revamped meat lockers where she hung the artwork like meat, and most recently in several four star Tribeca restaurants including the U.N., where chefs and artists once again collaborated on edible artworks for the tasting.

These curatorial efforts are an act of faith that the alternative isrefreshing and necessary. The purpose is to establish a supportive artist network while provoking the public to participate in and create artworksthat will alter and change the current trends of art exhibition. This is the history of the New York art scene and the hope is that establishedinstitutions and those within it will support the individual and originalityof thought.