Carey Denniston & Ander Mikalson

North Shore is the first collaboration between Carey Denniston and Ander Mikalson. The installation consists of three elements: sculpture, photograph and performance.

Arranged throughout the space in staggered rows are stacked red clay bricks chiseled into the outline of ocean waves. the cartoony silhouettes of the waves suggest clip art or cut-out theater scenery. Unmortared, the bricks rely precariously on their own gravity to maintain shape.

There is a tapping sound in the room. Two performers move casually among the waves, wires trailing from the headphones in their ears. Only they hear recordings of the brick sculptures being carved. They beat out an odd rhythm, recreating the scrapes of the grinder and raps of the chisel as shuffles and taps of the feet.

A large sheet of photographic paper hovers in the background, forming a horizon. The unfixed paper changes color over the course of the exhibition as it is exposed to light. beginning as a pale yellow field it shifts from peach to coral to rosy pink and finally to a deep mauvey-purple, creating the effect of a perpetual sunset.

Carey Denniston lives in Brooklyn, New York. She received an MFA from Hunter College and a BA from the University of Washington. Her debut solo exhibition, Landmark, was presented at Kansas (New York) in 2014. Recent work has been included in exhibitions at 143 Reade Street (New York); Denny Gallery (New York); and UCLA’s new Wight Biennial 2012 (Los Angeles). She has been an artist-in-residence at The Shandaken Project at Storm King Art Center (New York); Coast Time (Oregon); and École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (France).

Ander Mikalson lives and works in New York City. She earned an MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and a BA from University of California Santa Barbara. select solo exhibitions include “Three’s Company For Eight Performers,” Churner & Churner, New York City; “Score For Two Dinosaurs,” Art, Design & Architecture Museum, Santa Barbara and Queens Museum, Queens (both 2014); “Score For A Dinosaur,” Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia (2013); “Score For A Cyclone,” Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden; and “Music Of The Spheres,” The Anderson Gallery, Richmond (Both 2012). Her work has also been included in recent group shows such as “The Transpor- Tation Business,” Curated by Gregory Volk, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York; and “Recuperative Tactics,” curated by Lisi Raskin, Art In General, New York (Both 2014); and “Approaching Infinity,” Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento (2013).