FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

"Seeing is Believing" at the 450 Broadway Gallery

May 22nd to June 7th, 2003.

Opening reception May 23rd, 6-8 PM.

New York (April 9, 2003) -- Running from May 22nd to June 7th 2003, "Seeing is Believing" brings together the work of 7 different artists working in 6 different mediums. The theme "Seeing is Believing" brings a framework to these seemingly disparate works by encouraging the artists to address concepts of perception, interpretation, reality, and willing suspension of disbelief.

Participating artists include:

DOUG FITCH, Sculpture and Illustration.
Fitch is redesigning the human anatomy. In so doing, he hopes to facilitate a better access to the mystery of why we feel things. If, after filling our stomachs we still feel hungry, what sort of hunger has not been sated? What organ can we turn to for that deeper kind of sustenance? If art has a function, is it not to replenish our soul? And so, in inventing new organs for the human body, Fitch hopes to provide an image of something we know exists yet we have never seen -- the physical means by which emotions are produced.

PETER JAMIESON, Photography.
Peter Jamieson has long been experimenting with the interactions between people and the surrounding world. His street photography of unsuspecting subjects represents a striving to show a true reaction to the world in general. Realizing that emotion is not only seen in the face, attention is shown to the stature, positioning, and lighting of his anonymous subjects.

ROBERT MARBURY, Sculpture/Installation.
Marbury's work is taken from his collection of Urban Beasts ­creatures of his own invention fabricated from discarded stuffed animal furs and taxidermied to look like wild animal mounts. Bordering on the identifiable, Marbury's beasts explore Imagination in urban environments and the "impossibilities" that lead to awe and wonderment.

MICHAEL MCCARTHY, Painting and Multimedia Installation. McCarthy's work explores both digital and analog interpretations of his subjects. Upon initial inspection, the subject is not easily identifiable and there is no clear reference to figurative reality. However, a grid of thick, textured paint becomes unexpectedly unambiguous when a digital camera opens the portal to a more representative world. The resulting image is at the same time abstract and photo-realistic.

NOAH RISKIN, Multimedia Installation.
Riskin's installation will be a small, suspended sphere filled with real-time, 360°imagery of the outside activity surrounding the gallery building. His past performances and installations include an architectural scale lens system to image sunset, a firelight performance (firelight projector carried on the back) that combined his movement with the movement of a single flame, and an environmental installation done in Colorado.

ROB STUPAY, Paintings.
Rob Stupay likes to travel. His work is about the epiphanies that occurred while he was away. The work was made when he returned.

RACHEL SUSSMAN, Photography.
Sussman's nighttime landscapes deal with the creation of a tension between the apparently real and the completely subjective. The fact that she has chosen a mechanical medium is integral to the work. Her images address themes of concealment and uncovering, the scientific and the poetic, and subtle shifts from the familiar to the unknown.

For additional information please contact
the 450 Broadway Gallery at:

212.941.5952.

For more information on the artists and to view the online gallery visit the exhibition site at: rachelsussman.com/450.