It is 2018. I am thinking about the maps that we used to draw in elementary school where you used a strong line for the outline of a country and filled it in with softer shading. When you ran out of colors you would have to start again keeping the greens and yellows and pinks as far away from one another as possible so nobody would get confused.

When i think about Flat Earthers it conjures a magic carpet and visions of the earth from above. The earth as we know it isn't a thing, it's our experience of everything. A place of magic as much as a chart with a grid laying over it. Flat Earthers presents the work of four artists whose commonality is an embrace of the natural universe, in all its beauty and unpredictability.

Al Freeman's soft sculpture of a blue lobster residing in an aquarium filled with plants is a ersatz flip on conventional home decoration and domesticated wildlife.

Chris Hood presents new paintings rendered kaleidoscopic through backwards application. Using clip art and his own drawing Hood's paintings describe the vaguery that is romance and human experience.

Andy Robertson's temporary sculptures fall apart in the wind and are put back together infinitely by way of documentation. Composed of everyday objects rendered mysterious by their placement, Robertson's sculpture is at once too physical and too ephemeral for the gallery space.

Adrianne Rubenstein paints bucolic scenes of nature, distinguished from reality by their mixed use of descriptive and carefree brushstrokes. "The Flat Earth", a painting named for the exhibition, is a layered seascape with one onerous cloud floating in the sky, taking up all of the space.

Adrianne Rubenstein