GAY OUTLAW: IMPERMEABLE ORIANE STENDER: UGMOLU March 3-27, 2004 Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce IMPERMEABLE an exhibition of new sculpture by Gay Outlaw. The artist will present an installation of objects of surprising variety in shape and material. Outlaw has previously subverted viewers' expectations of formal sculpture, and in this exhibition takes the challenge a step further. She brings together a chosen range of materials: mirrored glass, lead, colored cast plastic, felt and clear vinyl with colored thread, activating the gallery space in a contrasting (or complementary) play of light, surface, color and volume. The sculptor's choice of materials, and use of modular units will create associations with Minimalist sculpture and industrial design. Certain sculptures will mimic architectural features of the gallery space. Gay Outlaw has exhibited her work internationally, including a one-person exhibition at the University Art Museum, California State Long Beach (with catalog) and an exhibition at the Sculpture Center in New York (with Lee Bontecou and Diana Cooper.) She is a recipient of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art SECA Art Award. Gallery Paule Anglim is pleased to announce UGMOLU an exhibition of new artworks by Oriane Stender. UGMOLU or Underwater Galactic Microscopic Outerspace Lifeform Units is the name given by Oriane Stender to her new series of sewn assemblages of US dollars. The UGMOLU ("ugh-muh-loo") take their form from bits of US dollars pieced and sewn together into delightful organic shapes. The artist suggests they can be read as planets making up a galaxy, fantastic creatures from the deep seas or microscopic entities which, like germs, infect our thoughts and actions everywhere. Oriane Stender believes that our culture has become so materialistic, so bottomline-oriented, and in such an all-consuming way that everything is about money. These artworks metaphorically speak of the colonization of our minds, outerspace and the oceans. These highly detailed, labor-intensive hand-sewn quilts continue Stender's work with dollars and other cultural currency. Her artistic practice combines the traditional techniques of "women's work", including sewing, weaving and quilting, with current cultural theories of appropriation and postmodernism. Stender has exhibited across the US and in Europe, and has been included in several traveling museum shows. The artist is the recipient of grants and residencies from the California Arts Council; Artadia, The Fund for Art and Dialogue, Millay Colony for the Art and the Gallatin School at New York University. A native of San Francisco, she currently lives in Brooklyn, NY. A reception for the artists will be held on Thursday, March 4th from 5:30 to 7:30pm.