Smack Mellon's summer exhibition is curated by an emerging curator and includes artists selected from Smack Mellon's Emerging Artists Exhibition Program-an annual open call to emerging artists. This year, emerging curator and Smack Mellon's Director of Exhibitions, Suzanne Kim, has selected eight exciting emerging artists to present their work. These diverse works collectively re-examine and represent existing and imaginary places.

Far from being a "white cube", Smack Mellon's architecture provides a unique point of departure for artists making site-specific installations. Svetlana Rabey's work functions as architectural shadows, reacting to the shape and dimensions, color, texture and scale of the space it inhabits. Focusing on a section of the gallery's concrete coal trough for her most recent wool-felt installation, she flattens its volume to create a shadow of the massive form. This shape then divides and multiplies, expanding systematically.

Tracey Goodman's slim suspended lines similarly direct our focus to the concrete trough that dominates above. As she creates a faulty path for an imaginary electrical source with her delicate cast plaster conduits, quad outlets and junction boxes, Goodman contradicts the efficient and logical paths of the building's modern electrical system and its obsolete function as a "Boiler Building".

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To watch the interviews for the show please follow this link
http://www.smackmellon.org/popup08/emergingVid.html