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IN GESTICULATION, THE SCULPTURAL WORK OF FRANKIE RICE STANDS SIDE BY SIDE WITH A SERIES OF ABSTRACT PAINTINGS BY GIO BLACK PETER AS A MONUMENTAL STATEMENT AGAINST THE LIMITING CONCEPTION OF ART AS CONSISTING MERELY OF OBJECTS ON DISPLAY.

    Both artists' work forcibly reshapes the viewer's immediate environment, simultaneously serving as an invitation to explore space in new and challenging ways. Rice's elegant granite sculpture, cut into various permutations reminiscent of doorways, functions as a meditation upon that archetypal place of encounter, the threshold. His curving …