Art Hag

Cueto Project presents The Common Mind, a group show featuring the works of four, female, New York-based artists. The title of the show comes from an article of the same name from Frieze Magazine wherein art critic/curator Greg Hilty says of British artist Eric Bainbridge's work - "We don't all choose our neighbors but they affect us. We don't always choose our thoughts but they also have a bearing." This statement "encapsulates all that simultaneously links and distances the four artists" who contribute to this exhibition, including Elinor Milchan, Christina Kruse, Tatyana Murray, and Eve Bailey. Their work "fuses the collective subconscious with the personal subconscious."

I wasn't sure what to expect upon entering the gallery with such an abstract description, but the works on view are great. I especially liked Tatyana Murray's Perspex and LED light Ghost Trees and Elinor Milchan's photographs that she prints on clear paper and mounts and laminates on to Plexiglass. Murray's lit pieces as well as her embroidered cardboard work depict memories from the artist's childhood and help her create "a memoir of the natural world." Milchan developed her own photographic technique that enables her to display colorful and vibrant abstract "LightLands" and/or "UrbanLands."

Formerly a very successful fashion model, Christina Kruse now photographs herself and detaches her body parts and superimposes her limbs and torso with lined graph paper and/or diagrams. Eve Bailey's piece is a sculpture that responds to her body's being "confronted by the city and its industrial architecture."

The Common Mind is on view at Cueto Project until September 10th. Read more at Oneartworld.com and see Cuetoproject.com.