OHT Gallery Boston

Previous Exhibits

Recent Objects

Steve Novick

January 7 - 29, 2005
Reception: Friday, January 7, 5:30 - 7:30 pm

O·H+T gallery is pleased to present Recent Objects, an exhibition of new sculpture by Steve Novick. Novick's work continues to incorporate found objects, with the addition of new materials such as plaster, Styrofoam, and wood. He also continues to evaluate these objects, focusing on the viewer's ability to perceive the meaning of something familiar when it is incomplete or seen out of context.

The objects in this exhibition are displayed on shelves or on the wall as if they were specimens in a museum, or goods in a shop. Familiar yet strange, these items seem vaguely functional though the key to their use and identity is missing. Works that are labeled as paintings have no paint and books are devoid of words, leaving one with a disorienting jumble of incomplete associations. In Five Sculptures, the absence is conceptual rather than formal. Each of its components can be seen as a small, discrete sculpture, while the piece is made up of these little artworks. This collection (one short, darker cylinder, one tall, segmented, pastel pillar, one medium mesh tube, etc.) is a sculptural sampler that suggests infinite possible combinations of shapes, colors, textures, etc. Here, the notion of sculpture as a physically containable thing is no longer viable, and the question of how an object functions is subverted and perhaps unanswerable.

Steve Novick lives and works In Somerville, MA. He has shown his work extensively at venues in the Northeast including, the Painting Center, New York, NY, and Gallery @ Green Street, Samson Projects, NESAD gallery in Boston. He has been awarded the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a Mass. Cultural Council Grant, and is an Assistant Professor at New England School of Art and Design at Suffolk University. This is Novick's second exhibition at O·H+T gallery.