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Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to exhibit new works by artists Lee Materazzi and Derek Stroup. The exhibition opens on February 20th, 2008 with a public reception from 6-8 p.m. and continues through March 28th. The two solo exhibitions will occur simultaneously.

Gallery 1. Miami based photographer, Lee Materazzi, graduated with honors from Central Saint Martins College in London. Ms. Materazzi has built a solid reputation as a talented and prolific photographer. Her work belongs in such prominent collections as The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, World Class Boxing, The Collection of Debra & Denis Scholl, and The Collection at the Sagamore. Materazzi stages elaborate theatrical scenes in which people seem to be fleeing their immediate surroundings or picking at the scab of estrangement by burying their heads in various surfaces. They appear vulnerable — victims of life’s banal intrusions, against which they fold without a fight.

Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to present work by Birgir Andresson, Allan McCollum, Jan van Munster and a group of Mug Shot photographs by Anonymous Photographers.

Birgir Andrésson (b. 1955 - d.2007) The exhibition will feature one of the artist’s wall installations from a series entitled Icelandic Colors. Born in the Westmann Islands in 1955, Andrésson went on to study visual arts at the Icelandic Academy of the Arts and then received a graduate degree from the Jan Van Eyck Akademie in Maastricht in Holland.

Andrésson was especially preoccupied in his work with spoken language, and the communication of visual perception, which he explored through text portraits, drawings, wall installations and three-dimensional constructions. The ‘Icelandic Colours’ are one of the strangest and most contradictory subjects in Andresson’s art and, like so many of his themes, they turn up again and again in different contexts. In his text-paintings the text appears on a solid field of color which is identified in a caption in the corner: “Colours: Icelandic Pantone 173, Icelandic Pantone 533.” To begin with this was perhaps just characteristic irony, making fun of pseudo-national trends in interior decoration. Later, however, these colors became a sort of signature that Andresson could use to put his mark on almost any subject he chose.

Quint Contemporary Art is pleased to exhibit new works by Thomas Glassford. This will be Mr. Glassford’s second solo exhibition at Quint Contemporary Art. The exhibition will feature new sculptural works as well as works on paper.

Thomas Glassford is perhaps best known for his sculptures using dried gourds. Exploring the sexual undertones of these objects, the artist created wild assemblages and even juxtaposed the gourds with everyday functional objects. Increasingly he has turned to more industrial and urban materials. Some are found, such as embossed vinyl or plastic tableware, while others are modified, like the anodized aluminum siding used architecturally for gates and doorways. These works create rhythmic wall reliefs referring to the city while partaking in a dialogue with the vocabulary of minimalist painting and modernist architecture. Overall, these anodized aluminum works recall minimalist sculpture and Op-Art painting of the 60s and 70s.