Moskowitz Bayse

Moskowitz Bayse is pleased to present Imperfect Crystal, an exhibition with works by Ilit Azoulay, Joe Biel, Charlie Goering, Anthony Miserendino, Joel Otterson, Cameron Spratley, and B. Thom Stevenson. The exhibition will be on view at the gallery from July 9–August 13, 2022. We will host an opening reception on Saturday, July 9 from 6-9pm.

“There's a wonderful sign hanging in a Toronto junkyard which reads, ’Help Beautify Junkyards. Throw Something Lovely Away Today.’ This is a very effective way of getting people to notice a lot of things.”

– Marshall McLuhan

Forgotten images and objects have ways of reaching us in incomplete states, laden with degraded facts, and out of step with their earlier selves, they yearn for resurrection from the consciousness graveyard. That scattered heap becomes its own metastatic archive, as the casted-off finds a worthy partner in the artist, magnetized by that essential willingness to reuse and reanimate visual scraps and orphaned information. Scavenged information becomes the charge of the rescuer, and fresh readings are applied accordingly. Imperfect Crystal brings together artists who consider these dimmed source signals, documents, and veins of mottled intentionality and refracted history. Through material transformation, images and objects return to us, their original meanings both fortified and acutely altered.