May 31 – June 25, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday June 2nd, 6pm – 9pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, 12noon – 6pm.
Soho20 Gallery Chelsea
547 W 27th St., Suite 301 New York, NY 10001 • 212.367.8994
www.soho20gallery.com
soho20@verizon.net
With her work in sculpture and installation, Monica Bock records and resists the loss to which bodies are subject. She conflates sacred, scientific and domestic imagery in work that is often based on castings of the body and of found objects. Her work employs ephemeral substances such as salt and soap, as well as apparently durable materials such as porcelain and cast iron. Recently, her work has focused thematically on the ordinary extremes of maternal life, as witness to both its intimacy and its alienation.