FLATFILEphotography presents SERIAL, a group show featuring the following gallery and guest artists: Liz Nielsen, Nora Herting, Ryan Zoghlin, Paho Mann, Karen Hanmer, and Liz Cockrum, with a video Installation by Eric David Hamilton.

SERIAL focuses on the often-sequential nature of photography. Paho Mann, for example, has photographed dozens of former Circle K stores which have closed and been reincarnated as other businesses; hairdressers, Karate schools, garden centers. However, common to all is the identical building structure beneath the new facade. Ryan Zoghlin, in contrast, uses cameras with multiple lenses that create narrative, sequential images, as well as presenting a tongue-in-cheek view of travel in a series of images of his own finger pointing at famous sites

Liz Nielsen photographs clouds in the sky and collages them into installations, which are then re-photographed into images in which the cloud is the central element. Nora Herting, who teaches elementary school art, photographs the oilcloth drop-cloths used to cover the tables where children paint and draw, and has created a continuing series of these abstract and fascinating images. Karen Hanmer, a frequent FLATFILE guest artist, has created a series of humorous re-vamped artist books from paperback bodice-rippers, and former gallery intern, Liz Cockrum, still a Columbia student, shows a portion of her series on carnival settings, contrasting each booth by night and day.

In the project room, Eric David Hamilton shows a video loop of new work. Hamilton's work is generally sequential and deals with multiple images, often utilizing himself as the subject.

Although Serial's artists are serious in intent, the show is also meant as a nod to the humor that art has to offer. In order to comprehend the profound, we must have a sense of the amusing and absurd. This exhibit is all about relaxing and enjoying the lightness in art.