The Proper Animal // Press Release

Spring’08 season-long multidisciplinary program comprised of three successive solo exhibitions. All three participating artists utilize highly original and sometimes disturbing animal iconography which inevitably brings ethical considerations into play.

PART 3
June 5 - July 12, 2008

Opening Reception:
Thursday, June 5, 6-8pm

JULIAN MONTAGUE
To Know The Spiders
Julian Montague continues his investigations into overlooked realms of daily life. In his highly acclaimed The stray shopping cart identification system project exhibited at the gallery in the fall of 2006, his method was to build a system of classification around a mundane object. In To Know the Spiders, Montague mounts a visual exploration of seemingly mundane animals – the spiders that occupy the peripheries of human architectural space more