Margaret Evangeline
William Brovelli
Moon Beom
Sydney Blum
Kwang-Young Chun
Christian Faur
Jay Fine
Augustus Goertz
Paul Glabicki
Sherry Karver
Mark Kessell
John Kirchner
Sarah Leahy
D. Dominick Lombardi
Shigeru Oyatani
Antonio Petracca
Louis Renzoni
Jacques Roch
Diane Samuels
Scott Sherk
E.E. Smith
Stan Smokler
Jim Toia
Susan Wides
Gerald Wolfe
April 4 - May 9, 2009
Opening reception: April 4, Saturday, 6-8 pm
We are pleased to announce our first solo exhibition of work by Paul Glabicki. His new drawing series titled
“ACCOUNTING for…” began with a Japanese artifact acquired by the artist several years ago: an accounting
ledger book dating from the 1930s. The relentless record keeping, the beauty of the mark-making, musings about its
contents and purpose, the fact that it survived and came into his possession, the patterns that emerged when the
book was carefully taken apart and arranged on a wall, the suggestion (by changes in the writing style) that more
than one person made the marks, and other thoughts, images, and responses grew out of the artist’s interaction with
the book.
Glabicki was interested in the book as a found personal temporal object imbedded with meaning, function and
mystery. Most intriguing to the artist was the fact that it was a temporal artifact that made a leap from past
to present: written day-by-day, month-by-month, entry-by-entry, mundane and utilitarian (not intended to be an
aesthetic object), recorded in time, and revealing patterns and rhythm over the duration of its writing.
The “ACCOUNTING for…” series seeks to continue the ritual of the ledger, actually transcribing each page as a
foundation and underlying structure for the application of new information. Layered over and around each transcribed
page are maps, calendars, fragments of newspaper text, parts of personal letters, and a multitude of measurements,
counting systems, and diagrammatic images – bits of incoming daily information both mundane and personally
significant to the artist. A careful viewer may decipher letter postmarks, information about architectural structures,
multiplication tables, clues about the time of the year in which the drawing was made, multiple languages and writing
systems, and other data “accounting for” thoughts, observations, images, associations, and events experienced or
collected during each drawing’s creation. The project will end after the final page of the ledger is transcribed and the
final new accounting process is complete.
Biography: Paul Glabicki
Paul Glabicki is best known for his experimental film animations that have appeared at major film festivals, as well
as national and international museum exhibitions. His animation work in film has been carefully crafted by means of
thousands of hand-drawn images on paper - each drawing representing both a frame of film and a unique complete
work on paper. His film works have been widely screened at such prestigious sites as the New York Film Festival
at Lincoln Center, the Cannes Film Festival, the Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of Art in New York
(Whitney Biennial), and the Venice Biennale. He has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, including a
Guggenheim Fellowship, grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, the American Film Institute, and several
grants from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.
For further information, please contact the gallery.