Frederieke Taylor gallery is pleased to announce its fourth, one person gallery show with well known sculptor Jackie Ferrara, opening Friday, September 7th. For this exhibition Ferrara has created a group of furniture elements as well as a series of wall drawings. Ranging in length from 13 feet to 40 feet, the drawings will enclose the gallery space and will create an environment for the furniture. The wall drawings are evolved from mathematical progressions, and will be inscribed in plaster on the walls of the gallery in grid like patterns.

Well known for her public commissions as well as her private work, Ferrara’s works occupy a unique space between architecture and sculpture. Often collaborating with architects and landscape architects, Ferrara has created numerous public spaces and architectural elements such as plazas, fountains, walkways, amphitheaters, pools, sculpture gardens, arbors, follies and public furniture. As art critic Kate Linker wrote: “Ferrara works with a spare syntax of forms and materials, a vocabulary of wood, granite, concrete, slate and ceramic tiles arranged in modular sequences that belong to the creative legacy of Minimalism… Ferrara can be seen as both an addict to order and a compulsive iconoclast.” Equally engaging are Ferrara’s small and mid-sized sculptures that employ a similar vocabulary of logical sequence and repetition.

Ferrara’s more recent public projects include the mosaic walls at five different locations for the subway system at Grand Central Station in New York, completed in 2000 and an Amphitheater at LACMA in Los Angeles built in 1999. She has designed towers for the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis and the University of Connecticut in Storrs. In 2006, she completed a fountain at the University of Houston and in 2007 her auditorium lobby wall at the University of Houston will be completed. In 2003, Ferrara created a 24,000 square feet courtyard and plaza wall at City Place in Toronto, Canada. With landscape architect Paul M. Friedberg, in 2001, she designed the award-winning “Canal Demonstration Project” along a 1.5 miles stretch of the Arizona Canal in Phoenix, Arizona, and is currently designing the Tisch Library Rooftop Project of Tufts University in Medford, MA, to be completed in 2008. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Award for Design from the American Institute, as well as the 2001 American Society of Landscape Architects’ Merit Award.

Also opening on September 7, Frederieke Taylor gallery presents a new ongoing flatfile project titled In the Viewing Room. Works on paper for the flatfiles are selected by artists, curators, and collectors and are accessible to the public. This inaugural project series is curated by artist Lisa Sigal. Included artists are: Jabari Anderson, Paul Bloodgood, Suzanne Bocanegra, Santiago DePaoli, Craig Drennen, Victoria Fu, Andrew Ginzel, Nayef Homsi, Erin Ikeler, Bob Linder, Gabriel Martinez, Suzanne McClelland, Kelly McRaven, Eduardo Navarro, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Lucy Raven, Zach Rockhill, Hanneline Rogeberg, Douglas Ross, Louisa Van Leer, and Ryan Widger. A rotating selection of works from the flatfiles will be displayed in the gallery.