Nov 18, 2005-Jan 6, 2006 | opening reception Fri, Nov 18 5-9 pm

Sometimes to get more out of life, you have to make more of yourself. So goes the premise from the 1996 movie Multiplicity, where Michael Keaton's character creates more of himself to manage the multiple hats we all wear today. At SPACES, nine local and national artists exploit that idea of multiples to better understand our complicated, multifaceted existence.

"Based on the Tibetan Buddhist ritual of "taking refuge," as found in the practice of Ngondro, for nun'-dro (refuge) I am tracking, and responding to, my experience of engaging in the practice and accumulation of the 100,000 ritual acts of physical prostration and prayer required for completion. To date, I have completed approximately 62,000 prostrations."

--Sarah Chokyi Bauer

"While wars are commonly fought in the name of children and future generations, those who make up the bulk of fighting forces are themselves barely out of adolescence. In Rise and Shine, I am concerned with the distorted and oversimplified view of reality that usually accompanies those engaged in war.

--Gary Carlos

"We live in an age where statistics and numbers
are used for impact, to enhance validity of issues. Yet numbers seem to desensitize us to their impact. Are 10 people
killed in a bus crash less important that 400 killed in
a coup d'etat? It seems clearer to me to create and arrange concrete objects
to represent issues. By using multiples of everyday objects, I "sew" together objects exploring their similarities and numbers with different form and meaning."

--Eddie Fulcher

"Traces of imagery, romantic landscapes twirl around clearly formed, dense labyrinth structures. Meeting at the juncture of abstract and objective representation, a contemplative, calm surface opens onto a complex pulsating image of our world."

--Patrick Gabler

"The work that I am currently making uses domestic patterns taking from my own personal history as its starting point -- isolating the pattern of concentrating on just a small slice of it, then displacing it into a new context, be it a wall relief, a painting or a pencil drawing. I am primarily interested in pattern for its relationship to the experience of both place and memory."

--Rita MacDonald

"I would like to expand on my ideas of the installation Inner Voyage, altering the shape of the boat-like form, modifying the use of space and depth. The space is quiet where internal and external light repetition and receding space allow the viewer to concentrate on his/her own experience."

--Danielle Julian Norton

"My sculptures often begin as discarded objects and materials, which I transfigure using simple, labor-intensive methods. Discovering or hunting down items which register potential is a large part of my process. The Loveseat series began with the discovery of several identical wooden chairs in a dumpster. Their manipulation has been guided by a desire to evoke the experience of individuality and conformity, strength and frailty, connection and isolation, and the experience of pleasure and pain."

--Loren Schwerd

"The work presented reflects my interest in historic and contemporary patterning and ornamentation. Over the past few years I have been investigating the ways people accessorize themselves and their environments. "

--Sherry Simms

"I locate my artistic practice at the intersection of abstract sculpture and drawing, the hand and the machine, and material and consumer culture. The new landscapes I create are the result of my own sampling and modification of "ordinary" materials: Band-Aids, paint chips, linoleum flooring, inks and paints. These materials find alternative lives in my work -- lives that simulate natural forms and phenomena like moss, cliffs, waterfalls, growth, erosion and decay."

--Amanda Wojick