Maria Levitsky   between 22 march -22 april 2002 opening friday, 22 march, 7-9p         0101 (from recovered forensic archive series), 2002 black and white altered photograph 11x 14 inches multiple of 8     installation views—                                                 press release   Pierogi is also pleased to present the first New York one-person show of Maria Levitsky's work. For this exhibition, Levitsky will integrate photography and installation in the gallery space. Between is conceived as an environment in which small models of rooms, photographs of empty and abandoned houses, and miniature abstract utopian structures exist together in an installation resembling a small town museum. The subject matter is organized by an invented taxonomy of simple systems or categories, which describe areas of abstraction, emotion, and visual signification related to the experience of architectural space; i.e. containment, structure, opening, facade, barrier, conveyance, etc. Fictional narrative is employed where necessary to create an aura of suspense and ambiguity, and the camera itself, as an obscure chamber, becomes a metaphor for the enclosures that we live in, and is the spying eye that captures the private life of empty rooms. Levitsky writes It is a conjuration of the dream life of buildings and the relationship between the imagination and the built environment. It explores the relationship between how space is seen versus how it is experienced, and revolves around the paradox that exists between a two-dimensional photograph and the three-dimensional scene it represents. The photographs stand in as evidence of what is out there (maybe), and the models are real three-dimensional objects that also represent reality in miniature, the better for projecting reveries.     to view additional maria levitsky photographs or the recovered forensic archive series   brief bio   SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2002 Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY 2001 Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA, Sept-Oct.   SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2002 (upcoming) Fong/Heimerdinger Gallery, SF, CA Gallery Artists, April 4-27 2001 Photogravure Show, Manhattan Graphics Center, NY, October The Alchemy of Light, curated by Jack Spencer, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN 2000 Womans Work.com, S.T.A.C., St James, NY 1997 The J. Hill Salon, Cassis, France Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY 1996 Other Rooms, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY 1995-present, The Flatfiles, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY Brooklyn Gravity Racers, Pierogi 2000 and Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY Collaborative Project with Mike Ballou, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY 1994 CRASH: Nostalgia For the Absence of Cyberspace, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY 1993 Neurotic Art Show II, Artists Space, New York, NY Re:Framing Cartoons, The Wexner Center For the Arts, Columbus, OH RE:Framing Cartoons (first version), Loughelton Gallery, New York, NY AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES 2000 Virginia Center for the Creative Arts 1999 Macdowell Colony, Evelyn Nef Photography Fellow 1998 Macdowell Colony 1997 Camargo Foundation Fellowship in Photography, Cassis, France PUBLICATIONS Rattapallax Lit Journal Fall, 2000 Fishdrum Magazine, Photo series published in Fall issue, 1999 TWS Press, "Crash: Nostalgia for the Absence of Cyberspace," Cover photograph for exhibition catalogue, edited by Thomas Zummer and Robert Reynolds, 1994 Waterfront Week, Photo series in several issues, 1994-95 BIBLIOGRAPHY "Photos on the Edge," Cate Mcquaid, The Bosotn Globe, Living Arts September 27, 2001 Smith, Roberta, "Other Rooms," The New York Times, Art in Review, July 28, 1995 Cotter, Holland, "Technologry Broken Down in a Group Show," The New York Times, Weekend, July 29, 1994 Levin, Jennifer, "Crash," The Village Voice, Voice Choices, August 3, 1994 Constable, Leslie, "Wexner Center Throws More Crumbs," The Columbus Dispatch, July 10, 1992 Kirshner, Kelly, "Cartoonists Address Social Problems in Exhibit," Columbus Lantern, July 9, 1992 EDUCATION BFA Cum Laude, Ohio University, 1997 Photography and Printing, School of Visual Arts, 1993-96 Parsons School of Design, 1992-95
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