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Some Assembly Required @ The Curator Gallery

Celia Johnson Tomorrow is the last day to catch Some Assembly Required, curated by Mark Wethli. From the Press Release: Taking its title from the familiar phrase found on   the labels for everything from tricycles to bedroom furniture,  Some Assembly Required  points to a similar stipulation for artists who employ geometry, which might be thought of as a kind of “kit” from which their work is constructed. While the narrow range of platonic forms found in plane geometry might seem too limiting for some, for these artists (and others like them) geometry’s neutrality and universality is what leaves it most open--but also most challenging--to creating new meanings and visual experiences.  “For artists working in this vernacular, geometry is to their work what haystacks were to Monet or bottles were to Morandi; not what the work is about or even what defines it, but simply the constant through which other ambitions, forms of expression a...