Marilla Palmer - Debauchee of Dew in a Concrete Landscape Eric Leiser -Aleph-Null Exhibition Dates: April 19 - May 17, 2008 Opening Reception: Saturday, April 19 from 6 - 8 PM I taste a liquor never brewed - From Tankards scooped in Pearl - Not all the Frankfort Berries Yield such an Alcohol! Inebriate of air - am I - And Debauchee of Dew - Reeling - thro' endless summer days - From inns of molten Blue - When "Landlords" turn the drunken Bee Out of the Foxglove's door - When Butterflies - renounce their "drams" - I shall but drink the more! Till Seraphs swing their snowy Hats - And Saints - to windows run - To see the Tippler Leaning against the - Sun! Debauchee of Dew in a Concrete Landscape by MARILLA PALMER is inspired by the intoxicating prose written by Emily Dickinson. Using artificial and natural materials the artist fashions up hybrid sculptures and collages made with mushroom spores, pressed flowers, holographic paper, and Astroturf, aimed at creating a supernatural world. Marilla Palmer has exhibited her work at numerous galleries including Pierogi and PPOW in New York City, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum at California State University San Bernardino, and Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles. She has been included in dozens of group exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Europe. Her work is the featured Critics Pick in the April 2008 issue of ARTnews magazine. www.marillapalmer.com For his first solo show Aleph-Null, ERIC LEISER presents holograms of sculpted objects optically captured by laser light onto sheets of glass based on set theory. His new work is a result of intense efforts to produce bas-relief sculptures, combined in some cases with other objects, as the subjects of his images. The results are through-the- window visual spaces saturated with forms, incidents and patterns, in blazing shards of color. They reward viewing from various angles, and their phantom forward projections layer on top of things hiding in the depths behind the window. Irrational Numbersthe artist's newest animation will also be on view as the featured media project. Eric Leiser is a filmmaker, animator, holographer, painter, puppeteer, illustrator, writer, teacher, sculptor, and former funeral director. His body of work includes several short subject and feature films. Featured in the May 2008 issue of Animation Magazine, his latest film "Imagination" has been critically acclaimed by over 60 international critics and is playing in festivals and theatres worldwide. His holograms have been shown in museums in the U.S., including the Holodome in Los Angeles, and the Ruben H. Fleet Science Center in San Diego. Special thanks to William R. Alschuler, Science Faculty, School of Critical Studies, California Institute of the Arts.