September 29 - November 10, 2007

JILL BAROFF

LikeThings

Margarete Roeder Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Jill Baroff entitled LikeThings from September 29 - November 10, 2007. A reception for the artist will be held on Saturday, September 29, from 2-6 PM. The exhibition consists of a monochrome floor installation and three new drawings. The installation, entitled Return, is made from over 100 yellow corrugated paper squares, each square is rotated five degrees relative to its neighbor. The color of the work constantly changes as the viewer moves around, adopting different positions in relation to the squares and the ambient light. Intensified by the shadows cast by the low relief of the corrugation, the work also changes throughout the day as the light from the gallery's large east facing windows varies in color and intensity. Like a clock in constant motion, the sculpture's hues are perceived as shifting and changing color with each step of the viewer and the movement of the sun in the sky. The circular tide drawings record another phenomenon of planetary movement: cyclical sea tides recorded at six-minute intervals and their disturbances in the form of storms and hurricanes. Beginning at the center and covering a period of around two-and-a-half days, the circular forms suggest the idea of place, here the endlessly mutable seascape. Again, each moment is in flux, spilling into the next. These works present themes central to Baroff's artistic activity: the ever-changing nature of perception, and our place within the world. Using this trivalency of circumstance composed of the work, the viewer, and the environment (but without resorting to any mimetic imagery) Baroff suggests possibilities and locations for us in the larger world. Jill Baroff was born in Summit, New Jersey, 1954; she lives and works in New York. Her most recent solo exhibition took place at the Kunstverein Grafschaft Bentheim, Neuenhaus, Germany in 2006. Her work is represented in the collections of many American and European museums including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, and the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. For further information and photographs, please contact the gallery.