Amanda Dow Thompson

Amanda Dow Thompson, Ghost Moth installation view via Causey Contemporary

Amanda Dow Thompson’s latest show at Causey Contemporary is an examination of transience and permanence when light shines through her sculptures and creates shadows as dynamic as a prism’s rainbow. The sculptures of carved wood, cast resin and cast glass hang from the center of the gallery ceiling. The dreamy resin and glass ones look like double helixes, while the wooden ones feel like some bone hybrid of rib cage and spine, columnal and swirling, support systems that are somehow delicate themselves. Light projects through them as they slowly spin, casting blurred organic shapes. On the wall are Andrew Garn’s photographs of these shadows, cast with colored light creating a more kaleidoscopic version of the live view behind it.

Ghost Moth is now on view at Causey Contemporary in Williamsburg through November 6^th

Jordan Eagles

Jordan Eagles "Bar 1 - 9" 2009 via Causey Contemporary

At Hemoglyphs, the current show at Causey Contemporary, New York City native Jordan Eagles encases salvaged slaughterhouse blood in plexiglass and UV resin. The resulting ceiling-high abstract sculptural murals are incredibly bold, both in form and intention. His method permanently preserves the blood’s color and texture. Light shines through the panels to reveal unexpected details in the layers of blood, which vary to appear every red between black and baby pink. Some coats are splashed and dripped while others are crystallized and congealed into a glowing tapestry of pauses at different stages of the preservation process.

Eagles mysteriously avoids profanity by presenting objects so unapologetically big, bright and bold as to numb any squeamish reaction. By going all in, he humbles the viewer into absorbing the visual effect rather than the gory medium. It’s ambiguous whether the source material is meant to make a political statement. But the suspension of a vital, flowing substance as abstract imagery seems rife with universally applicable interpretations.

Hemoglyphs is now on view at Causey Contemporary in Williamsburg through October 2^nd.

Alan Binstock

Birth-Beginning, 2009 via Causey Contemporary

Causey Contemporary's new larger location allows Maryland sculptor Alan Binstock’s large-scale creations the proper space to shine and breathe. He works with steel, shattered glass, resin and dye to combine the abstract strength of a glacier and the colorful jubilance of a sno-cone. Having the space to walk around and under the structures is a refreshing invitation to interact with art.

Binstock moonlights as an architect for NASA’s mission at the Goddard Space Flight Center. In his own words, he is influenced by the “macro and micro worlds suggested by space ‘landscapes’ that surround [him] at NASA and their similarities to magnified views of our own structure.”

A woman who works at the gallery said he is admittedly referential in his work, so I don’t feel bad pointing out the sculpture pictured above is suggestive of Arnolodo Pomodoro’s “Sfera Con Sfera,” which can be seen at the U.N.

Alan Binstock’s Way Stations II is on view at Causey Contemporary on 92 Wythe Avenue in Williamsburg until June 12th