A group exhibition in collaboration with
L’SPACE Gallery
February 29–April 13, 2024
524 West 19th St. New York, NY 10011
POP UP Group exhibition at
524 West 19th St. New York, NY 10011
February 29–April 13, 2024
With an opening reception February 29 (6-8pm)
Press Release
Borderline: Mapping Narratives
Pierogi Gallery and L’Space are proud to present “Borderline: Mapping Narratives,” a collaborative group exhibition delving into the complexities of our contemporary global landscape, a world characterized by shifting borders, cultural interactions, and social transformations. The exhibition will be on view from February 29 through April 13, 2024, with an opening reception Thursday, February 29 (6-8pm).
John Phillip Abbott • Justin Amrhein • Stephanie Costello • Hugo Crosthwaite • Jane Fine • John Gigio • Elliott Green • Ellen Grossman • Jonathan Herder • Linda Herritt • Sharon Horvath • Sermin Kardestuncer • Darina Karpov • Marik Lechner • Mark Lombardi • Ati Maier • Karen Margolis • Stacy Arezou Mehrfar • Johan Nobell • Roxy Paine • Bruce Pearson • Mark Reynolds • Michael Richards • David Scher • Ward Shelley • John Stoney • Lynn Talbot • Sarah Walker • Ken Weathersby • Martin Wilner • Charles Yuen • Daniel Zeller
Borderline—liminal spaces and states, intermediate positions, frontier lands, zones that are no simple task to navigate or map. As in a Cormac McCarthy story, these artists are tentatively feeling a way forward, teasing out the contours of the unknown, whether that be the terrain of a canvas or paper substrate, of the mind, the natural environment, the socio-political environment, or other parts unknown.
Mapping narratives attempts to navigate the context of a literal or abstract image. These can include a wide range of narratives: mental, physical, emotional, even spiritual; subjective and objective. The unifying nature of this exhibition is underlined by the reference to mapping and the overall borderlines that give a sense of six degrees of separation.
Dawn Clements paints and draws her way across panoramic rafts of paper, mapping idiosyncratically what she sees, including tabletops, film interiors, even her own body. Mexican-American, Tijuana native, Hugo Crosthwaite considers himself an “artist from the border, ‘Un Fronterizo,’ someone who lives in an area that is both México and the United States.” In “Caravan,” included here, he traces the uncertain path of migrants while himself inhabiting the ever-changing frontier zone. In pen, ink, and pencil Daniel Zeller maps invented micro and macro anthropocenic worlds, examining environmental shifts of an evolving ecology resulting from man’s actions. Sermin Kardestuncer simultaneously maps the memory of her ancestors (born in Turkey, the daughter of a tailor) and the pain of 301 miners lost in a mining accident in Soma, Turkey, by stitching bits of coal into 301 balls of cotton on a simple cloth base. Christophe Thompson’s works map familial narratives over generations. “Chess Match” is a multi-layered, autobiographical narrative about the rise of a Haitian slave (Thompson’s ancestor) becoming the only monarch in the Western Hemisphere, and the generational challenges his descendants faced.