August 10, 2004 - Rotunda Gallery presents All the Numbers I Know, curated by Rotunda Director of Education Meridith McNeal. The exhibition is comprised of compelling and diverse works from Brooklyn-based artists who embrace mathematical ideas and processes.

The artists in All the Numbers I Know are inspired by the imbedded patterns in our environments that lend order to the chaos around us: the rhythms and syncopations of music, the gritty systems of urban architecture and the vastness of the night sky. Stepping into the gallery space, one is awed by the complexity of the industrial engineering while delighted to also discover the imperfections of the handmade. With ever-expanding circular forms, hand-stitched grids, geometric sculptures and mesmerizing op-art, the exhibition reveals itself with exquisite subtlety - appearing at once highly abstract and painstakingly rational.

Artists include:

• Beth Caspar combines a visual vocabulary of planar geometric shapes with a systematic organizing principle to explore the interplay between the predictable and the unpredictable, the analytic and the synthetic, the systematic and the random.
• Visual artist and art director Juan-Carlos Castro designs engaging patterns that are a functional meditation on personal and cultural identity. He is creating a site specific work for this exhibition.
• Matthew Deleget's black and silver drawings are densely concentrated with information. They vibrate with the tension between flatness and depth, space and movement.
• Nicholas Evans-Cato's sparse, geometric sculptures evoke the derelict billboard frames that are an integral part of Brooklyn's urban landscape.
• Gilbert Hsiao creates work that hums with rhythm, texture, space, vibration and illusions. Dazzling with intensity, each piece is a brilliant visual expression of disparate elements working together in one elegant system.
• Monique Luchetti's striking wall pieces, made from rug and braided fabric, conjure a whimsical world dominated by shape, form and color.
• Fascinated by the aesthetics and history of utopian city planning, Rossana Martinez uses cut and stacked paper or colored thread on fabric to create her own ideal environments.
• Shari Mendelson's elusive window installation evokes a delicate cloud from infinite circles of translucent material. Gracefully highlighted by crystal rain, the piece plays with the incoming sunlight and delights the viewer with its kinetic energy.
• Doug Morris' sculptures confound and delight the viewer with their geometric, web-like intricacy.
• The wonderful clumsiness and intimacy of film comes alive in frame after frame of Jenny Perlin's animated film. A satirical look at American culture, the piece presents a series of receipts, self-help mottos and other remnants of consumerism, carefully hand-drawn and captured on film by the artist.
• Part folk art and part meditative ritual, Donna Sharrett's work combines meticulous needlework with ordinary and surprising objects. Sharrett's textile sculptures take the shape of beautiful mandala forms that eloquently speak to loss and the power of remembrance.
• Juana Valdes' installation, The Journey Within, is a series of cast porcelain boats that form a curving river on the gallery floor. The tiny sculptured boats are reminiscent of the precise folds of origami, highlighting Valdes' interest in indigenous mediums and their ability to evoke the restless spirit of the immigrant.
• Elizabeth Zawada's highly systematic processes collide with random elements of chance in Mobius Count, leaving the viewer curiously off-balance.