Featuring: Mary Campbell, Mark Masyga, Melissa Pokorny and Jennifer Wrobewski

Curated by Anne Cypcar.

It’s So Real, like the mass media shift from sitcom and journalism to reality TV, addresses the perceptions of what is actually real.

Mary Campbell uses illusion to approach the subject “the real” by emphasizing the obvious materiality of the paint with attached fabrics, beads and other objects not traditionally used as paint. When paint is used in her work, “abstractions are illusions too, so it’s much the same thing.”

Melissa Pokorny's "homemade cultural probes" make their material   presence known by exposing the goo that binds the oddly shaped   elements. The viewer is left to wonder what is this foreign stuff   that seems all too familiar?

Mark Masyga looks at reality from within the process of art-making   by constructing abstract, surface landscape paintings referring to   a combination of photos of construction sites and the painting itself.

Jennifer Wroblewski looks to the inner makings of the real in her   large-scale drawings, which transcribe the forms of biologic   matter, mainly the body, into illustrations of the motion of these   shapes and figures.