PS122Gallery is pleased to present a two-person show of Suzanne Goldenberg and John Stanley, with Hallway Project by Valentina Medda.

Suzanne Goldenberg, having worked in a variety of media including drawing, collage, textiles and video, has chosen to focus on her more recent work in sculpture for this show. Through an improvisational process, she transforms found and scavenged materials,often what might be considered detritus and of no apparent value, into highly unexpected sculptural compositions that bear traces of the emotional, the architectural and the comic, but are ultimately non-literal. In these sculptures, the materials retain their historiesas the waste by-product of our consumer society, but through sensitivity to their other possible lives, Goldenberg also transforms them into rich materials forming precarious structures poised between growth and collapse.

John Stanley’s series of photographs,entitled In a Hidden Place, explore tensions that exist between the natural world and urban culture. These photographs depict clearings within city parks, hidden from public areas. Some pictures show traces of a human presence, while others depict a natural environment, with only a hint of usage implied. These scenes evoke a sense of an improvised domestic space, one that questions the nature of what a habitation could be.

John Stanley is a photographer originally from the Hartford, CT area and now based in Brooklyn, NY. He recently received his MFA in Photography from School of Visual Arts, where he was the recipient of the distinguished Paula Rhodes Memorial Award.John Stanley has worked for years as a photographic educator, and is currently working in both arts education and administration. His photographs have been exhibited across the country, most recently at Bakery Space, Rhinebeck, NY; School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York and Envoy Gallery, New York.

Hallway Project: “Cassandra” by Valentina Medda

This exhibition has been made possible through the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts, Painting Space 122, Inc. and the Friends of PS122 Gallery.