Gallery Visits: Daniel Zeller and Elise Engler

Kate Davis, Daniel Zeller (CRF 2007), Tina Summerlin

Tina Summerlin and Kate Davis, from Civitella's New York office, visited Pierogi Gallery to see Daniel Zeller's (CRF 2007) Immiscible Cohesion and robert henry contemporary to see Elise Engler's (CRF 2004) A Year on Broadway.

Zeller's exhibition consists of a group of black and white ink drawings on paper in Gallery 1 and one large-scale sculpture consuming much of the space in Gallery 2. The new drawings – a kind of imagined topo-cellular cartography on acid – seem as though they could all be part of the same world, each referencing different potential sections of that world. In certain ways they pull from each other – as Zeller continues to develop a language of marks and shapes – to create new terrains, new organisms. These drawings exhibit Zeller’s characteristic push/pull between macro and micro worlds, referencing topographical, biological, astronomical, and other imagery that he has absorbed and reimagined to create entirely new forms.

Elise Engler (CRF 2004)

Elise Engler: A Year On Broadway is an exhibition of gouache, watercolor and colored pencil drawings created in a yearlong project to document every block of Broadway in Manhattan. Begun on May 19th, 2014, Ms Engler alternated drawing locations from uptown to downtown and back as she drew her way up and down the 13 miles Broadway slashes across the grid of Manhattan streets. Through wind and rain, snow and sunshine over an entire year Ms Engler drew every block on 6" high x 22" wide sheets of paper that are accordion folded so that some views are 4" wide, others are sometimes double and occasionally triple wide (12"). Attached together the entire project measures 6" high and 102' wide. She created the final drawing on May 18th, 2015 on the block near her home at 107th Street and Broadway.