Art Opening: James Hoff at Team Gallery

Team Gallery is pleased to announce a group show featuring works by Matthew Higgs, Margaret Lee, James Hoff, and Georgia Sagri. Entitled Parasitic Gaps, the exhibition will run from September 5th through October 6th. Team Gallery is located at 83 Grand Street, between Wooster and Greene, on the ground floor. Concurrently, our 47 Wooster Street space will house a one-person exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Marc Hundley.Parasitic Gaps explores the ways in which textual elements can be used to prop up, destabilize and misdirect meaning in the realm of visual art. While not all of the work in the show includes literal text, each artist is involved in the practice of mating separates in order to create a new meaning for both. Words here help to create a malleable space between the artist’s intention and the viewer’s reception. James Hoff’s applications of text to form are sometimes visible, sometimes not. For his newest sculpture, the artist purchases used floppy disks and stacks them into towers. Previous owners of these disks often fail to erase them before their disposal, and some of the contained data is private: legal papers, financial documents, even diary entries. The text held by the dated digital storage format causes the work to leech meaning and value from the files. Hoff will also display paintings produced by taking digital photographs of gessoed panels, applying computer viruses to the files, and printing the distorted resultant images. These works consider the code of computer viruses as text, in a sense taking the malicious programmers as his unwitting collaborators. Another body of work, called “Syndromes,” pairs pieces of text with monochromatic abstractions. Each describes a syndrome, often with comical implications (“Uncomfortable Hair Syndrome,” “Social Media Remorse Syndrome”). The text is not meant to caption the image, but to interact with it. The exhibition runs from September 5th through October 6th. More info here:http://www.teamgal.com/exhibitions/269/parasitic_gaps_curated_by_miriam_katzeff