Carey Denniston/ Marley Freeman

May 17 - June 22, 2013
OPENING RECEPTION 17 May, 6-8 PM

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KANSAS is pleased to announce two solo projects: Carey Denniston and Marley Freeman. Opening May 17, the exhibitions will run through June 22, 2013.

Carey Denniston will present a new installation of her ongoing series "To what degree a stone is a stranger / To what degree it is withdrawing."  Each of Denniston's screens consist of two custom built frames attached face-to-face - one image partially eclipsed, faces the viewer, the other inward - an act of self-reflexivity. Compositions of natural and architectural elements are obscured and reconfigured, using the structure of the screen as an opacity tool, reducing imagery to an analogous, non-narrative state. Central to Denniston's practice is looking at certain dualistic structures of life; what it is to occupy a structure and to examine our measured existence within it; the flexible space of the real.

In the back gallery, Marley Freeman will present a series of recent small and medium-scale acrylic paintings that expand her predilection for the fundamental attributes of abstract painting; scale and surface, gesture and color. Structured by motif and visual syntax, Freeman overlays a series of automatic reactions to arrive at paintings that vary from highly layered abstractions to spare calligraphic compositions. Her wet-on-wet application process articulates speedy marks that read as independent images while simultaneously coalescing into harmonious swarms. Drawing influences from textile design and pattern, her process is in search of a particular unknown image, an exploration of temporal production and ritual making.

Carey Denniston (b. 1981, Oregon) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College, 2012 and a BA from the University of Washington, 2003. Her work was recently shown in Superpositions, New Wight Biennial 2012, UCLA, Los Angeles; College Art Association NY Area MFA Exhibition, Times Square Gallery, NY; When I Come Around: The Artists Around Me, APT Show, Brooklyn, NY; Unfamiliar, Denny Gallery, NY; and Useful Pictures, Michael Matthews Gallery, NY. 

Marley Freeman (b. 1981, Massachusetts) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received an MFA in painting from Bard College, 2011 and a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2008. Her work was recently shown in House Arrest at Franklin Street Works, CT; Reading Boyishly at THIS IS THE PLACE, NY; Significant Ordinaries, The University Art Museum, California State University, CA.


The gallery is located at 59 Franklin Street, three blocks South of Canal between Broadway and Lafayette. The closest subways are A/C/E,6,J/Z,N/Q/R and W at Canal and the 1 train at Franklin. For additional information, please contact Steven Stewart at KANSAS by calling +1 (646) 559-1423 or emailing This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.