As the finale of its fifth year, Plane Space is happy to present Grayscale, a group exhibition bringing together the sculpture of John Bisbee, photography of Talia Chetrit and drawing of Andrea Sulzer. The exhibition opens Thursday, June 28th, and continues through Friday, July 27th. A reception for the artists will be held Thursday evening, June 28th, from 6 to 8 p.m.

Minimally curated, both in selection and number, each of the artists in the show are exhibiting one or two works. Though ranging in media, each of the works is unified by a monochromatic palette of black, white and grays. John Bisbee, introducing forging to his formerly exclusive welding of nails and spikes has created a floor piece, a mound of muted flattened and bent steel spikes evoking a chunk of shale. Talia Chetrit’s two large photographs are simultaneously elegant and meditative. Eight, 2007 shows repetitive tire tracks in gravel in the shape of a figure-8 while Diamond, 2007 focuses on the hard edges of a gem stone as they are defined by the soft and subtle changes in grays as light refracts through it. Andrea Sulzer’s commanding 100×100-inch pen and ink drawing is largely abstract, its title, Spillway, suggesting the free associative approach to its execution. Occasional discernable imagery – knights, sea urchins – break up the ebb and flow of this tidal pool like composition.

Bisbee, a recipient of a 2006 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, has recently returned to Maine from his sixth residency at the MacDowell Colony. He is currently preparing for a mid-career retrospective at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine that will open in early 2008. Chetrit is currently attending the Rhode Island School of Design for her M.F.A. in photography. In addition to participating in exhibitions in Pingyao, China and Glasgow, Scotland, she has exhibited in Boston, Chicago and Washington D.C. Running concurrently to Grayscale, Chetrit’s second group show at Plane Space, her photos are also included in a group exhibition, With Teeth, at Priska Juschka in New York. Sulzer received her M.F.A. from the Glasgow School of Art in Scotland. She has held residencies at the Ucross Foundation and the Vermont Studio Center and was a Bingham Fellow at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In addition to Maine and other locations in the U.S., Sulzer too has shown her work in China and Scotland as well as Kyoto and London.