WHITE NOISE
The background soundtrack of everyday life.

Artists: Mary Kate Maher, Dan Merlo, Chris Klapper
Curated by Devrim Kadirbeyoglu

Creating the melody: the foreground world of extensive consumerism, deadly conspiracies and
reckless violence.

We live in a world propelled by extensive consumerism where marketing tactics and media bombard,
humming under even the rarest of silent moments. Society’s omnipresent noise is a constant
reminder of the manmade world- a loud band of money, technology and war that never turns off
the amps.

One can tune out... Turn to numbness... Even have amnesia, ignoring the chorus they know is building with familiar notes. Others conduct the paranoia and measure public anxiety. Still others
are just frustrated and exhausted finding a way to overpower the relentless drone. Or one can
just submit to listening. Symptoms of the times.

Inherently, society thrives on using all natural resources its able to get its hands on. Even a resource as abstract, boundless, sacred, simple and as seemingly plentiful as silence. All quiet moments to think end interrupted... WHITE NOISE.

MARY KATE MAHER

"In my work I can indulge morbid fantasies. I can exaggerate the subtle discomforts of the body
into disruptions of flesh, bone and hair. It is a way for me to orchestrate a kind of deliberate hypochondria.

...I am interested in how we can cohabitate with our phobias, phobias caused by our own existence." MK Maher, '07

DAN MERLO

"The Gary Show was produced during a very hard but special, worker bee period in my life when
I felt trapped by location, debt, and lack of direction. The Gary series helped me through this time. Gary gave me the freedom to explore the absurdity I saw in text book style art and worker bee mentality. I could let characters interact, do things they're not supposed to, tell each other silly stories, or explore ideas about God." D Merlo, '07

CHRIS KLAPPER

"...Sperm is a darkly humorous and beautifully strange interpretation of one of the earliest stages
of our being.

The Sperm engage in an aggressive formation heading towards the viewer with an other-worldly intent." C Klapper, '07

Dates: March 10 - April 15, 2007
Opening Reception: Friday, March 9, 8-10pm

Dam, Stuhltrager
38 Marcy Avenue (at Hope)
Brooklyn, NY 11211
718-387-9818
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