Places and Spaces: CMay Gallery opens three-person exhibition
(Artdaily.org)

CMay Gallery presents Places and Spaces, a group exhibition featuring Eric Ernest Johnson, Hwang Seon Tae, and Manfred Menz, three artists who practice distinct methods of art making and yet have converging interests in exploring the concept of place as it intersects memory and time. The material and approaches used by these artists range from the painterly and effervescent work of Eric Ernest Johnson to Manfred Menz photo-based erasures of familiar landscapes to the cool schematic interiors of Hwang Seon Tae’s light boxes. Together they highlight the slippage between place as a physical reality and space as an experience, a site of memory making, a habitual presence, and ultimately a concept inseparable from imagined reality. The exhibition continues CMay Gallery’s ongoing commitment to curator-driven exhibition programming. The three-person exhibition includes a selection of works by Manfred Menz from his “Invis