Room Gallery

Room Gallery continues its Emerging Artist Series with Between the Blinds, a photo installation by Kelly Barrie.  As the artist explains: “The piece began with a chance event, both profound and humorous.  I came across a photograph of The Lonely Tree of Ténéré, a thorny acacia standing alone in the vast, hostile expanse of the Sahara Desert.  I discovered that in 1973 this tree met an improbable end when a Libyan truck driver (allegedly drunk) drove into it even though there were no other trees within 250 miles.  The tree perished from th

Television and cinema do not record moments of reality but simply moments in the dialectical process.  Areas/eras of contradiction that have to be examined in the light of class struggle.  - Jean-Luc Godard

Room Gallery continues its Emerging Artist Series with A Just Noticeable Difference, a video installation by Kenny Berger.  The work’s title comes from the 19th century psychologist Gustav Fechner, whose experiments addressed the minimum change in sensory input that a person could detect.  Berger’s video installations have long been concerned with the limits of sensorial perception in art, influenced by the work and writings of Robert Morris.  Departing from classic Minimalism, however, Berger’s installations incorporate film and narrative in

Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.

- Marcel Proust