Nine American Artists Show at Galleria Mazzoli in Modena

Galleria Mazzoli in Modena presents a group exhibition featuring nine young American artists based in Lower Manhattan, an area long affected by real estate speculation. The artists document social fractures using discarded materials and obsolete technologies—old telephones, electrical wires. In the catalogue, Alexander Shulan describes their condition as 'a narrative of resistance to the most powerful story of aesthetic domination by New York's oligarchy.' The works reflect the city's urban historical-cultural condition. Jeffrey Joyal transfers familiar American landscapes onto paper or cardboard. Valerie Keane's installations hang like chandeliers, composed of handmade materials that evoke a vertical vision of the city. Robert Bittenbender's interventions derive color from material composition, while Bradley Kronz uses found objects to reconstruct fragments of his life and memory. Jason Matthew Lee's telephones are authentic technological relics superseded by digital experience. Maggie Lee arranges images as collages drawn from her personal history. Win McCarthy's sculptures narrate the exterior from the surroundings of his studio. Willa Nasatir's visual representations oscillate between figuration and abstraction. Ben Schumacher's sculptures and paintings act as seismographs detecting interactions from the information world.