Pusey and Ramsauer Explore Time and Space at Michael Steinberg Fine Arts

At Michael Steinberg Fine Arts in New York, an unusual duo exhibition pairs Stephen Pusey's cosmic paintings with Birgit Ramsauer's intimate photo-paintings, both probing the transformation of time and space. Pusey, a London-born New York artist, evolved from sci-fi expressionism to a refined calligraphic style. His methodically built canvases, influenced by Oriental calligraphy and Jorge Luis Borges, feature intertwined colored lines that evoke an expanding universe and labyrinthine stasis. Ramsauer's small-format photographs, enhanced with paint, reference German Expressionist writer Paula Modersohn-Becker. Digitized and hand-painted, her works—such as those depicting Paris's Gare du Nord and 29 rue Cassette—oscillate between darkness and shimmering anticipation of transformation. The series was previously shown in Germany with a text by Angelika Sinn. The exhibition runs from September 23 to October 23, 2007.