Kate Barclay @ CCE opening May 17

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May 9, 2008 Kate Barclay @ Confederacy of Creative Ephemera A project space inside Circus Gallery Opening Reception: Saturday, May 17, 7 - 9PM CCE/Circus Gallery 7065 Lexington Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90038 Saturday, May 17 – June 14, 2008 Tues – Sat 11AM – 6PM 323-962-8506 www.circus-gallery.com info@circus-gallery.com Kate Barclay is a recent graduate of the UCSD MFA program and will be presenting a show of new sculpture and photo graphs she draws over. As Kate puts it. My work is developed through the act of observation; my eyes upon a site, in person, my body in relationship to a place that I am observing or walking through, and my hands upon a material, manipulating it. New discovery and invention comes from this handling and reworking, from the cut and the seam. I increase the size of the in-between, stretching it, inflating it. I notice complexity in the almost nothing, and I proliferate that nothing. My subject matter is local, familiar, and close at hand. I develop a relationship to materials, patterns, and forms that I observe near my studio and home. I watch my landscape evolve: construction workers erecting buildings, weather eroding the wooden surface of a table, holes being excavated for new piping lines. There is a flux, a contraction and an expansion, a continual flow. I am aware of the processes and labor happening around me on different scales, monumental and minute. My work preserves a part of my physical and mental relationship to these events and materials. I am focused on the moment of most potential in an object or a site, when there is a movement or a transition from one form to another. I work with a sense of urgency, a need to capture something ephemeral, such as the chaos at the edges of a construction site. There is instability in my landscape; the world is not level, there is no center. I perceive a precariousness to my existence, and I convey that fragility. The site is kneeling down.