July 2005

In a brilliant juxtaposition of old master and young gun, curator Eva Lake--Artstar radio hostess and former owner of Lovelake Gallery--pairs octogenarian collage artist Eunice Parsons with Zeitgeist Gallery co-founder and skate/graff artist, Paul Fujita for the inaugural exhibition at Chambers Gallery. Interestingly, an important part of Parsons' practice is the incorporation of found words from subway posters and other "detritus of our contemporary culture," as the artist puts it, while one of the projects Fujita shows here is a book in which the words have been obscured by and abstract painting. An exciting Fujita piece is his Hans Hoffmans-esque collage of broken skate decks. Chambers Gallery is the new game in town run by Lake as gallery director and owner Wid Chambers in the old SW Elizabeth Leach space. With TJ Norris also slated for a show later in fall, Chambers looks promising. [LR]