BUSHWICK – NORTE MAAR (83 Wyckoff Avenue, #1B, Brooklyn) is pleased to announce the return of the apartment gallery with a new exhibition featuring recent painted drawings by PATRICIA SATTERLEE. The exhibition also feature the inauguration of Norte Maar’s commissioning program whereby artists are selected and invited to produce a site-specific work in one of the rooms of the apartment. This exhibition will premiere a new site-specific work by sculptor ELLIE MURPHY and photographer/text artist JERI COPPOLA.

The exhibition opens with a reception, Friday, September 30, 6-10PM and will be on view by appointment only through October 23. For more information, contact Jason Andrew at 646-361-8512 or visit www.nortemaar.org

PATRICIA SATTERLEE grew up in Pittsburgh, PA, attended Carnegie-Mellon University and received a BFA from UC Santa Cruz. She has an MFA from American University in Washington, DC, and for the past sex years she has been making work on Grattan Street in Bushwick. Her recent work is made up of loose and playful lines, which laugh and dance with rational systems. Satterlee juggles symbols and historic markers that seem reminiscent of the clarity and simplicity found in early modernism of Kandinsky and Matisse.

Painted Drawings are rhythmic structures of sensory experience. More intuitive than intellectual, the orbits have a motion that feels both ancient and primal, immediate and futuristic. The paintings capture the spontaneous energy pursuing its course with lines suggesting the space between the things. In a confluence of swirling halos going from one object to another the flux lines make forms of their own identity. – Patricia Satterlee, 2011

The more simple the lines and forms the greater the beauty and power. – Ingres, 1808

ELLIE MURPHY will create a new sit-specific work of yarn and knots in the second bedroom. http://site.elliemurphy.net

JERI COPPOLA will create a new site-specific work using photograph/text installation in the kitchen. http://www.jericoppola.net/