For immediate release:


Hogar collection presents: Extraordinary Matters
sculpture, painting, drawing and video by:
Ned Mansfield, Susan DeSeyn, Theodore Kersten and Sharpy
Opening reception January 22, 2005 6-9pm.
January 22 – Febraury 28 2005
111 Grand street, Brooklyn, NY 11211
Gallery Hours: Thursday- Monday 12:00-7:00 p.m. and by appointment
Contact: 718.388.5022 info@hogarcollection.com www.hogarcollection.com

    
                         
                       
    Ned Mansfield’s sculptures work as a sort of poetic gesture or homage to the
objects he chooses to be his subject. Combining familiar imagary of things
ranging from a washing machine to a boat motor or an ugly duckling with materials loaded with metaphor and history, such as marble and lead, the pieces become personal portraits with a subtle, soft spoken comical air.
He received his MFA from Yale in 1994 and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
                       
                     
  Ned Mansfield, “untitled”
7.5 x 4 x 4 in., marble, 1995		                    
   
Theodore Kersten’s paintings mix humour with the absurb to create a style of comic drawing portrait narratives. Using sympathetic characters taken from popular culture such as clowns, robots and animals, he creates dialogues between the characters that have a sense of odd commradarie betweeen themselves and the viewer. Kersten lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and exhibits his work nationally. This is his second group show at Hogar collection.  
   
Theodore Kersten, “sacred-scared”
12 x 10 in., oil on canvas
         
  In the video work by Sharpy, a collaboration of Cecilia Biagini and Dahlia Fischbein, seven individual drawings of dream-like scenarios come to life in a live drawing animation where the compositions and the music are derived from an improvisational collaboration. Cecilia is an interdiscplinary artist who shows internationally and is co-director of Hogar Collection. Dahlia is an artist and video maker from Argentina. Both live and work in Brooklyn, NY
         
Sharpy, “video still from sleepy rider”, 2004            
                 
In Susan DeSeyn’s minimal works on paper, she meticulously cuts out and covers found imagery of classical furniture with enamel, erasing it’s identity and simultaneously revealing the beauty of it’s form in relationship with the body. She received her MFA at Rutgers University and shows regulary in New York and nationally. She lives and works in Queens, New York
    
                 
Susan DeSeyn, “Untitled”
22.5 x 22 in., collage and enamel on paper, 2004