HALSEY MCKAY GALLERY

Halsey McKay Gallery is pleased to present Ring of Chorus, its first solo exhibition with Ned Colclough. Coclough fabricates, gleans and arranges work-a-day materials to challenge the plasticity of perception.  In his hands, glass, fabric, metal, and stone is meticulously altered and idiosyncratically affected. His accumulations manifest as wall reliefs, and sculptures, that serve as artifacts of the symbiotic proces which they undergo within the studio. Oddly confrontational in their strange, almost sci-fi appearance, the chosen materials’ decorative, and applied arts origins render an easier ambience upon prolonged viewing. This atmopheric waiting is central to the role that the artist plays at work, with the objects under scrutiny. Never forceful with his spoils, patience and looking lead to associative take offs, and elegant displays of architectural folly. An interdependent development between artist, object, and viewer is where the work finds its footing. Titles such asMagra Islet, and Benthic Zone are drawn from ecological regions and coral reefs, and serve as metaphor for Colcloughs own organic interpolations.

Ned Colclough earned his BFA from the NSYCC, School of Art & Design in Alfred, NY. His work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions in private and public venues including: the Portland Institute of Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, OR; Wallspace, NY; Nicelle Beauchene, NY; Dodge Gallery, NY; The Brooklyn City Pavilion, 9th Shanghai Biennial, curated by Cleopatra’s, Shanghai, China (traveling); Zieher Smith, NY; Sara Meltzer Gallery, NY; Printed Matter, NY, and in curated exhibitions by Apartment Show. He is a recent recipient of the 140 Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. The artist lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, and is represented by Nicelle Beauchene Gallery.