Sunday, November 30, Reception 6-9pm

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30 – Susana Gaudêncio and Courtney Tramposh, with Books by Denise Schatz

Our second exhibition shows the work of Susana Gaudêncio, Courtney Tramposh, and Denise Schatz, who challenge notions of spacial orientation and visual invention with installation, drawing, sculpture and books. Gaudêncio and Tramposh's new pieces have been designed especially for Subletter's Gallery. They have both chosen to implicate the gallery space as part of their work, but in different ways. Gaudêncio's floor piece dissolves the line between stage and gallery, while Tramposh's combination of sculptures and 2-D pieces will self-reflect upon each other suggesting a conjoined real/imaginary. Schatz's elegant book pieces will act as the third space, both an art piece in itself and simultaneously, a gallery of images.

Courtney Tramposh





Susana Gaudêncio




Denise Schatz

Susana Gaudêncio

Susana Gaudêncio will be exploring new installation territory with Blocking Series #2 - The Dream Play. Blocking is a theater term which refers to the precise movement and positioning of actors on a stage. In Gaudêncio's piece, the story is told not through the actor's words but through their motions. Two characters of Strindberg Dream Play have their actions literally drawn in space and time. This site specific work will interpret an excerpt of the text in order to attain a visual translation of the dynamics of the drama.

Susana Gaudêncio was born in Lisbon, Portugal. Gaudêncio has a Painting degree from the Fine Arts School, University of Lisbon. She recently completed her MFA at Hunter College in 2008, her MFA was supported by a fellowship from the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the Luso-American Foundation (Research and Specialization Grant). In January 2009, Gaudêncio will have a solo show in Carlos Carvalho Gallery in Lisbon, Portugal, and an installation at the Project Room at the ISE Foundation in New York.
www.susanagaudencio.blogspot.com
www.carloscarvalho-ac.com

Courtney Tramposh

In recycling materials culled from previous sculptures, Courtney Tramposh continues a formal investigation into the reconfiguration of an object's history and function. Her works carry multiple and varied references to art, architecture, furniture design, patterning. Many works contain within them an allusion to a material void, which, in calling attention to its absence, points to a missing element essential to the understanding of the form's existence. The aesthetic and conceptual focus is dissolved and scattered to the perimeters of the artwork so that the sum of all its parts forms a question, rather than an answer.

Courtney Tramposh was born and raised in Prairie Village, Kansas. She earned her BFA at the University of Kansas in 2003, and, after attending the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, moved to New York. She has recently completed her MFA from Hunter College in sculpture. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
www.ctramposh.blogspot.com

Denise Schatz

Miniature Garden is a collaborative books project started by Denise Schatz. Some recent work includes; The Unsolved Problems and Paper Pyramid with Casey Cook, book of rocks with Ariel Dill and Miya Osaki, and Eclipse Book with Patricia Valencia.
www.miniaturegarden.org

Denise Schatz was born in Los Angeles, California. Schatz received her MFA from Hunter College in 2007. She lives and works in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
www.deniseschatz.net