Places and Spaces

CMay Gallery presents Places and Spaces, a group exhibition featuring Eric Ernest Johnson, Hwang Seon Tae, and Manfred Menz, three artists who practice distinct methods of art making and yet have converging interests in exploring the concept of place as it intersects memory and time. The material and approaches used by these artists range from the painterly and effervescent work of Eric Ernest Johnson to Manfred Menz photo-based erasures of familiar landscapes to the cool schematic interiors of Seon Tae Hwang’s light boxes. Together they highlight the slippage between place as a physical reality and space as an experience, a site of memory making, a habitual presence, and ultimately a concept inseparable from imagined reality.