Participating artists: Erica Baclawski, Jason Middlebrook, Fabian Birgfeld, David Moreno, Beth Campbell, Adam Ogilvie, Marti Cormand, David Payton, Annabel Daou, Raymond Pettibon, Alexander Gorlizki, Fidel Sclavo, Alex Hamilton, Ken Solomon, Xylor Jane, Nicolas Touron, Ricardo Lanzarini, Andy Warhol, Marco Maggi, Amy Wilson

The world deserves a break. A table and chair help resist the summer heat in Chelsea.

Table Top is a show of horizontal drawings, the negation of the tablecloth. One can go from table to table without loosing the perspective that reminds the original relationship between the paper and the artist. 20 drawing are seen from the distance they were made at. Most of the artists created a work specifically for the exhibition working on a 29 square inch sheet of paper, the exact size of a tabletop.

Some of the drawings are to be read: Raymond Pettibon’s watercolors with text; Amy Wilson’s cartoons; Beth Campbell’s Potential Future drawings or Nicolas Touron’s complex scenarios. Others are also meant to be read carefully but with no hope to be informed: The international Herald Tribune, Alex Hamilton’s abstract newspaper; Xylor Jane’s mathematical textures of intersecting lines; Marco Maggi’s insignificant codes on kitchen foil; David Moreno’s visual translations of sound waves or Annabel Daou’s rotating concrete poem Truth and Beauty. Alexander Gorlizki’s drawings on rolodex cards are to be flipped through at the table.

Fidel Sclavo’s watercolor classifications of anonymous fragments, Marti Cormand’s Table of Contents, an ariel view of the leftovers of a conversation; David Payton’s painted daily drawings of Diet Coke cans and Ken Solomon’s video projection of a month worth of meals are all arbitrary inventories of mundane life. Ricardo Lanzarini’s frantic little men in extravagant attire swarm around the tabletop like colonies of industrious insects. Adam Ogilvie, Jason Middlebrook, Fabian Birgfeld and Erica Baclawski’s landscapes are to be contemplated from top. The resulting show recalls the diversity of population at lunchtime in a busy cafe.