EXHIBITIONS

	"Chain," Mona Hatoum

"If one word captures the mood of the country today it would be anxiety," writes curator Manon Slome. "The prospect of a terrorist attack on American soil, the fact of war, as well the threat of an erosion of civil liberties, have infiltrated our consciousness and tested the sense of confidence invariably associated with America." The artists represented in Anxiety offer works that range across the spectrum of scope and reference, from the geopolitical to the private and personal. Mona Hatoum's "Chain," a loop of interlocking gloves suspended over a wooden wheel, resonates with a sense of sinister inexorability. Leon Golub offers images of a world at the precipice of unreason and violence. Joshua Neustein's installation "Fanning the Fear" upends deeply ingrained notions of home and country. Reynold Reynold's and Patrick Jolley's two film installations, "Burn," and "Drowning Room," transform domestic scenes into bad dreams of obliviousness and complacency. (The show is accompanied by a catalogue.)

"Fanning the Fear," Joshua Neustein (click to view larger image)

"Burn," Reynold Reynolds and Patrick Jolley