January 21st - February 20th, 2010

Isaac Tin Wei Lin

A Place Near Here

Fleisher/Ollman is very pleased to announce Isaac Tin Wei Lin's solo exhibition, A Place Near Here, which includes new two- and three-dimensional works, as well as collaborative pieces created by Lin and 25 fellow artists.

Lin is as influenced by his Chinese heritage (he is the first of his family to be born in the United States) as he is by American street and popular culture. In A Place Near Here, the artist continues his exploration of multiplicity and interstices. The works, a frenzy of calligraphic-like pattern, musical notation, cartoon cut-outs, and bright color, span traditional categories of painting, printmaking, assemblage, collage, sculpture and installation. The artist's repetitive mark-making, inspired by such things as Xi'an terracotta soldiers, ant colonies, and the artist's training in Mandarin Chinese, where for homework vocabulary words were written over and over, creates meaning and space through accumulation.

Don Colley

Cascade

Chicago-based noir artist, Don Colley, transforms the gallery's window with an installation of his print work.