Gürbüz Dogan Eksioglu & Cheryl Gross

Cheryl Gross of Jersey City and Gürbüz Dogan Eksioglu of Istanbul make art that leans toward sequentiality.

 

Their creations never want to stand alone. They’re designed to attach to something: a tale, or a concept, or a controversy, or another drawing, or whatever happens to be placed next to one of their pieces. In good faith, and with good humor, they’re always prompting us to turn the page. 

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Part of the fun of “Tension & Tenderness,” a new show at IMUR, is seeing how pieces made on opposite sides of the Atlantic bond to each other like paper and glue