SEVEN

DAWN CLEMENTS (PIEROGI) • DIANA COOPER (POSTMASTERS) • BEN GOCKER (P.P.O.W) • HEW LOCKE (HALES) • EMIL LUKAS (BRAVINLEE) • GIL YEFMAN (RONALD FELDMAN GALLERY) • ANDY YODER (WINKLEMAN)

Expanding its model of a collaborative platform for presenting and experiencing contemporary art, SEVEN will hold its first New York area exhibition in Williamsburg, Brooklyn at The Boiler, April 28 - May 20, 2012. Launched in 2010 by seven galleries from New York and London (BravinLee programs, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Hales Gallery, Pierogi Gallery, Postmasters Gallery, P.P.O.W, and Winkleman Gallery), SEVEN is a unique initiative committed to presenting artworks on their own terms and providing an intimate, personal way to engage the viewer.

seven @ SEVEN will present solo projects by one artist from each of the participating galleries. Featuring major installations, paintings and sculptures, the exhibition will fill The Boiler's cavernous space in a co-curated, dynamic presentation. This emphasis on cooperation rather than competition is a founding principle of SEVEN that truly puts the art viewing experience ahead of all other considerations.

Entry to seven @ SEVEN is free. Opening party! Friday, May 4th from 6 – 9 pm.
Special performances to be announced.

Diana Cooper is a Brooklyn based artist represented by Postmasters since 1998. Defying easy categorization, Cooper is known for creating dense, large scale " hybridized constructions," that transcend the childlike doodling of repetition, multiplication and absent-mindedness to create spatial units where spontaneity and control, chaos and order, joy and seriousness coexist. Recently Cooper began incorporating photographs into her works and the wall installation at the Boiler will combine fragmented photographs with three-dimensional elements, abstracted, but projecting an inherent sense of oppressive systems, networks, circuitry and surveillance. "Cooper with her absurdist playfulness and Orwellian intimations, appropriates for herself - and her metamorphous creations - a unique place in contemporary abstraction " - Lilly Wei, Line Analysis, Art in America, April 2008