(Im)Mobile Spaces features recent abstract paintings by Irene Lawrence and Barbara Westermann's sculptural series Tractatus. Barbara Westermann is a sculptor whose work, while echoing the concerns with social and political issues characteristic of conceptual art, bears the simple and reductive forms of minimalism. Irene Lawrence is a painter whose recent work can be loosely described as abstraction, fluid in its formal composition and elusive in its meaning. Nevertheless, when presented together, Westermann's sculpture and Lawrence's painting work in tandem, offering a harmonious visual display of three-dimensional and two-dimensional forms, motion-less and motion-like spatial enclosures, restful and restless surfaces. And it is this visual interplay of their (im)mobile spaces that reinforces a feeling of contraction and expansion, evoking at the same time an overall sense of perpetual circularity and pulsation.

Curated by Vesela Sretenovic
image: Barbara Westermann, Tractatus, installation view (in process), 1998-99