On view will be a selection of recent editions by seven artists who use a variety of aesthetic devices and agendas. Laylah Ali’s malevolent universe pictured in Greenheads, offers a vision of severed heads floating in suspended animation against a clear blue sky. Ellen Berkenblitt constructs disquieting narratives where an awkward protagonist and her animal companions meet in lyrical yet mysterious circumstances. Ellen Gallagher’s Untitled lithograph/watercolor is a composite of her signature lines and grids overlaid with repeating marks. In White on White (Four Sections of a Wedding Cake), Julia Jacquette composes a grid of details lifted from advertising imagery which equates the lexicon of consumer desire with the craving for romantic love. Annette Lemieux’s Lily shows the back of a girl’s head, her hair covered with butterfly hairclips- capturing a fortuitous instance of adolescent whimsy. Clare Rojas’ Untitled (Woman with Girl), is an idiosyncratic fantasy straight from the artist¹s subconscious, where teenage notebook art meets kitsch Surrealism. And in Shahzia Sikander’s Afloat, the artist uses her usual phantasmagoria of Indo-Persian motifs to brilliant effect.

Susan Shup: Les Sirenes

The new drawings of Susan Shup are about the multi-faceted identities of women which intersect and overlap, often in the same individual. These women, whether business executives, students or rock and rollers exhibit in their dress and demeanor the desire to control their experience and their image. In Shup’s view, "while responding to unavoidable changes in fashion, women can become as powerful and mystical as sirens: supernatural, timeless, femme fatales". Shup, who was born and educated in the USA, lives and works in Paris, France where she has frequently collaborated with designers and couturiers.