Gregory Perkel
		Never before in art history has an artist transformed supermarket cartons into a creative medium the way 
		Gregory Perkel has – disassembling the design elements of cardboard boxes, creating new patterns, new 
		relationships, new meanings – transforming them into unique works of art.  Experiencing his creations can 
		be like traveling through time.  Move very close to them and all you can see are the bits and pieces of 
		today’s marketplace economy in which our lives are embedded.  Step back for a broader perspective: it is 
		as if you are viewing our society from a future vantage point, a thousand years from now, studying the 
		serene, exquisite relics of our vanished civilization.

		Gregory Perkel, 2002

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THOMAS PFANNERSTILL
Little Debbie - 2002
acrylic on wood
6.5 x 16 x .75 inches (16.51 x 40.64 x 1.9 cm)

		Thomas Pfannerstill
		In my work, I meticulously re-create common objects, wrappers, packages and boxes I find on the street. 
		I find them noteworthy in that they represent a small, but unvarnished truth; they are the polar opposites of 
		the images hammered into all of us by mass advertising and carefully calculated point-of-purchase displays. 
		Time, chance and the elements have affected and altered these objects, overlaid them with a patina of 
		reality. Edges are softened; geometry is bent and twisted into organic creases and folds. No longer are they 
		the squeaky-clean, mechanically identical images we’ve seen thousands of times. They have become, in 
		effect, individualized. The objects themselves carry a visual record of this transformation to individualization; 
		each tire mark, lipstick print and water stain depicts a part of the process. They are representations of a 
		sometimes-harsh reality and a subtle reminder of the transitory nature of all things.

		Thomas Pfannerstill, 2002

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GEORGE CIARDI
Midnight Sun - 1999
supergloss type R print
16 x 24 inches (40.64 x 60.96 cm)

		George Ciardi
		Shooting time exposures at night with no manipulation of subject or light, photographer George Ciardi 
		captures the bleak beauty, surprising colors and implied human presence found in urban and rural industrial 
		settings. Allowing daylight balanced film to react to the color temperatures of various lighting sources, he 
		draws upon his factory background, appreciation of structural geometry, and love of night and shadow to 
		create compositions that raise more questions than they answer.

		George Ciardi, 1999

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LEONARD KOSCIANSKI
Under The Tree - 2004
oil on canvas
46 x 66 inches (116.84 x 167.64 cm)

		Leonard Koscianski
		Leonard Koscianski symbolically alludes to the dark emotional turmoil of suburbia.

		This painting shows a tangle of predatory animals in a suburban neighborhood, surrounded by a cage-like 
		network of branches. For many critics of the postmodern world, the individual is isolated from the product of 
		his labor, and imprisoned in suburban sprawl. He is tantalized, and inevitably frustrated in his quest for 
		consumer products. He is shorn of religion, ethics, and metaphysics. Even long standing customs are 
		suspect.

		Leonard Koscianski, 2003

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TJALF SPARNAAY
Bananas in Plastic - 2001
oil on panel
17.5 x 23.5 in.

		Tjalf Sparnaay
		Tjalf Sparnaay's paintings of simple objects from daily life rendered in a Hyper-Realistic manner are distinct, 
		clear, and joyous. The artist gives reality an added push. His realism is penetrating, presenting us with the 
		recognizable, almost boring reality of everyday life in a way we cannot avoid on a large confrontational scale. 
		His work leads us to the surprising discovery that the visual harmony of things is dictated not as the 
		consumer society would have us believe, by their perfection, but by their imperfection, their whimsicality 
		and unpredictability. He kneads reality, letting it run through his fingers, giving it form, injecting in it the 
		subjective and the unpredictable.

		Sparnaay works in oil in the most refined tradition of hyper-realistic painting, combined with the unique 
		viewpoint of the classic17th century Dutch painters. The objects he portrays are painted in an almost 
		idealized, surreal environment. Ethereal light suffuses scene. The object itself, often of the most mundane 
		sort takes on an iconic meaning. He paints in the tradition of the Dutch Golden Age, re-written in 
		contemporary story lines.

		Tjalf Sparnaay, 2003

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