The First Thing

Mar 20–May 1, 2010

Jesse Aron Green
Nicholas Grider
RJ Messineo
Lisa Ohlweiler
& Clarissa Tossin

Organized by Matthew Siegle

“If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born, and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into it if you want to know the truth. In the first place, that stuff bores me, and in the second place, my parents would have about two hemorrhages apiece if I told anything pretty personal about them...."

-J.D.Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

The First Thing, Organized by Matthew Siegle, Redling Fine Art, 2010. Installation view.

Lisa Ohlweiler, Untitled, 2010, c-print, edition of 5

Jesse Aron Green, Untitled (Concatenated Marks Likes Kisses or Hits, for EH), 2009, graphite on graph paper

Jesse Aron Green, Untitled (Concatenated Marks Likes Kisses or Hits, for EH) (detail), 2009

RJ Messineo, THINGS UNDER THINGS, THINGS INSIDE THINGS, 2010, mixed media

Clarissa Tossin, Spent, 2009, porcelain

Nicholas Grider, Los Angeles, I’m Yours, 2010, light jet prints, edition of 5 with 2 APs

Clarissa Tossin, Shared Napkin (Ludovic, Andrezza, Guilherme and I), 2007, paper napkin, lipstick, grease, red wine, chocolate, tomato sauce & coffee