Procrustes
Victoria Palermo and Adam Daily

February 26-March 19, 2016
Artist Reception: FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2016, 5-8 PM

In Greek Mythology, the son of Poseidon, Procrustes, invited travelers to spend the night in his mountain stronghold, where he set to work on them with his smith’s hammer to stretch them to fit his iron bed. This legend has become the name sake and metaphor for mathematical applications in which geometric equations are used to make shapes fit a given proportion. In the exhibition, Procrustes, Victoria Palermo and Adam Daily engage the viewer in the same way. Victoria’s new body of work “Horizon Line” seeks to engage the immense new space of the Collar Works gallery using geometry and light. The works play with notions of architecture and landscape while acknowledging the industrial character of the exhibit space. The paintings of Adam Daily are finely crafted two-dimensional surfaces with the sculptural power to push and pull their environment. Adams paintings are built from hundreds of individual isometric shapes assembled and guided by a set of self-imposed visual rules. Together the work of Victoria Palermo and Adam Daily will push the new Collar Works gallery in mood and chromatic intensity.