Safe in the Outside

Randall Heath / Kate Van Cleve

ICEBOX GALLERY presents: An exhibit of new work by two Minnesota artists. Randall Heath makes small enclosed boxes that you peek into. Each box equipped with motors and lights, opens into an amalgamation of assembled objects like a kaleidoscope. Kate Van Cleve's paintings and pastels arouse a primitive sense of longing and emotion. Each boldly colored work captures a peopled scene that is domestic, familiar, raw and unknown.

Randall Heath's finely crafted boxes only measure a cubic foot, each outer stained wood box is a different color. Looking into a glowing hole the viewer leaves the outer world of familiarity, finding a world inside where lights change colors and slow revolving mirrors tilt and reflect many interweaving objects mixing with collage. Contained and in miniature we see fleeting reminders of the past and present, each art piece quiet, intimate and at times surreal and containing a visual volume much greater than it's physical mass.

Kate Van Cleve goes deeply personal and creates raw internal scenes as if creating a journal without words, choosing instead to express boldly with color and gestured arm strokes. Working in oil on canvas and oil pastel on paper Van Cleve's artworks express feelings of social ambiguity, personal loneliness and longing.

ICEBOX Gallery's Kitchen will display an additional exhibit of B/W photography by New York City photographer Y. Nagasaki.
Y. Nagasaki is best known for his street images of the dark, odd and sexual side of New York City. Many images have been published in his book titled "Zoo York." ICEBOX hosted a solo exhibit by Y. Nagasaki "Stars and Bars" in 1992.

Artists Reception & Opening, refreshments served.
Opening Reception : Saturday March 11, 2000 at 8:00 PM - 12:00 AM Exhibit continues through April 15, 2000.

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