Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art is pleased to present SUPPOSEDLY an exhibition of new work from Sebastien Leclercq. SUPPOSEDLY will consist of a site-specific vinyl tape drawing on the exterior of the Rebekah Templeton building and an installation of 132 drawings in the gallery space. 
 

Based in drawing, Leclercq’s work consists of the creation and augmentation of structural semi-narrative circumstances. Whether these conditions are constructed of graph paper or architectural structures, Leclercq subtly undermines the certainty and order denoted by their object-hood. For ‘Progress Trap,’ Leclercq has covered the gallery with his signature handmade graph paper. Starting as framed blank pieces of paper on one side of the gallery, the 132 drawings are built by sequentially adding marks to each page and are hung with increasing negative space. Ending on the opposite side of the gallery in a broken pile on the floor, the completed sheets appear as though they had crashed through the gallery's front window. The confrontation and reconciliation of the viewers gaze within Leclercq’s booby-trapped situations require an “active aesthetic reading,” exploring the boundaries between perception and knowledge.  
 

Leclercq has shown nationally and internationally. Most recently, he was a part of the 2009 Works on Paper exhibition juried by Joao Ribas at Arcadia University and I Don't Watch the Internet at Fleisher Ollman Gallery. He was part of the Fleisher Challenge Exhibition series in 2006. This is Leclercq’s first exhibition at Rebekah Templeton Contemporary Art.

SUPPOSEDLY opens on Thursday, March 11, 2010 with an opening reception from 6-9 pm.   The show closes on Saturday, April 24, 2010.