“Urban Equations”

Making sense of the daily grind

We all know artists usually have day jobs, but it’s intriguing to come across one whose day job is so intimately linked with her off-the-clock creative pursuits. Fiber artist and teacher Su Job, who shows work this month in the tiny Corridor gallery (literally a corridor upstairs at the Tashiro-Kaplan artists’ building), also manages Fiber at Large, a design studio that takes her work around the world. Her Urban Equations here are meant to show how scientific theories “enter our peripheral consciousness and affect our views of daily life.” Visually, this translates to complex equations embroidered in a Russian needlework style, laid over solarized and otherwise altered images from Job’s neighborhood. You can’t be entirely sure what she’s getting at—only that it’s on her mind, and her hands, day after day.

Oct. 4-27, 2007