10 July – 07 August,  2015

Opening reception Friday 10 July, 2015 from 6 – 10 pm

Marginal Utility is pleased to present ‘get it while it’s cheap #4’, a summer group show featuring new projects by Matthew Herzog, Kyle Psulkowski, Marcelle Reineke & Alexandra Jo Sutton.

Matthew Herzog:
I admire space. Its surface is illustrated by the interplay of ‘objects’ but it withstands their identity. It seems efficacious and without intention, yet it defies all offers to be filled.
I could say, ‘The Space between us has History’ but it’s only if we believe it. I could say, ‘It is Permanent’ but only as long as I’m still. I could say, ‘It lingers without Apology’ but it’s because it can endure the silence.

If I share my outline with that of space, should I have a conversation about ownership? If a space is by ‘I’ and by ‘Building’, can I be critical? Should I recognize responsibility? Would it expose me?

When I imagine space as solid material I’m compelled to care for it. If objects manifested in the void between myself and another, I’d feel accountable, that I should be more polite, cautious, measured….. Maybe, it’s for the best we stay apart.

Kyle Psulkowski:
I am interested in creating patterns and forms that can not exist. The hand that makes them is the thing that undermines the structure of the form. My desire for perfection is limited to my own processing and the translation through a medium. These forms live in a subconscious realm bathed in light and float without shadows. The viewer can re-imagine the patterns of observation and systems. My work is human as it functions as one system of flaws and idiosyncrasies.

Marcelle Reinecke:
This body of work is attempt to construct representational images using a synchronistic approach. Painting languages typically associated with abstraction such as splattering, or pouring are combined with sculptural impastos, and cartoon like forms. The purpose of this Frankenstein approach aims to get closer to the feeling one has of living in a world that disregards the artist’s desire for aesthetics unity.

Alexandra Jo Sutton:
Installation Title: “You Leave, And You Come Home. You Always Come Home.” Memory, the simultaneous truth and falseness of it, is a recurring theme in my work. An entire world can be built around a fraction of a memory, or the fabrication of one. I like to use and alter found photographs to look into the periphery of memories, and to create new stories within those spaces. I am drawn to elements of familiar environments, like the home, the yard, or a family vacation, which often become characters with stories of their own.

The content of my work is always intimate and personal, but weaves in and out of truth and fiction. Photographs, textures, materials, objects, and artifacts work together, or in contrast to one another, to create narratives and relationships. I simultaneously document and fabricate a history that is and is not mine.