Five New York gallery exhibitions reviewed from July 2004

Five distinct exhibitions opened in New York galleries during July 2004. Willard Boepple presented architectural sculptures at Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, including the nine-foot aluminum "Room" (2000) and three painted poplar "temples" from 2003. At 511 Gallery, a group show titled "brush, pencil, chisel, knife" featured thirteen artists, with notable works by Jennifer Odem, Ed Fraga, Matt Ernst, Mark Cooper, Bryan Le Boeuf, and Mark Mennin. George Billis Gallery hosted "Industrial Beauty," displaying cityscape paintings and drawings by twenty-four artists including Stephen Hicks, Elizabeth O’Reilly, Nicholas Evans-Cato, Ron Milewicz, Rick Dula, Andrew Lenaghan, Lois Dodd, Richard Orient, Thomas Connelly, Diana Horowitz, Roland Kulla, Stephen Magsig, Constance La Palombara, Andrew Haines, and Stanley Goldstein. Axel Raben Gallery presented "Synthesis: Experiments in Collaboration," featuring nine artist pairs such as David Humphrey & Jennifer Coates, Laura Lisbon & Suzanne Silver, Creighton Michaels & James Clark, and Craig & Sean Miller. George Adams Gallery exhibited Joan Brown's early 1970s painted constructions, including "Luxury Liner" (1973), "Divers" (1974), and "Dancers on a Car" (1973). These reviews originally appeared in The New York Sun on July 22 and July 29, 2004.