“This two-person show is actually the product of a temporary space taking over the Carmichael Gallery for the summer. Featured are two young artists, S.J. Lee and Erik Sanner who bring classical themes and tendencies to the latest video and digital media. Lee is based in Seattle, Sanner in New York, so formal and aesthetic connections, and they are there, are strictly coincidental.

S.J. Lee would be regarded as an acolyte of Bill Viola if she were based in Los Angeles. She favors a languorous but very sharp visual experience, and adopts a reverent posture with regard to the historical antecedents whom she embraces, ranging from Goya and Picasso to Fuseli and Sargent.

The fact that some among a series of 30 minute long video portraits feature elderly sitters such as “Sevillano” invests them with striking beauty, even as age and its infirmities are readily visible, only adds to the impression of reverence. She conveys equal interest in children, composing “Waiting to Grow” and others on specific visual quotes, in this case Picasso’s “Child with Dove.” Lee’s version artificially elevates the young subject into a theatrical event that is quite different from Picasso’s expressive embrace. But Lee does build up an emotive component in these works that is a product of the length of time that subjects are asked to pose. What Lee refers to as their “struggle to maintain” actually transforms the up-to-the-minute use of media from the usual trendy appearance to having a feeling of grounded persistence.

This is no passing fad.

A conceptually intriguing work that currently exists, in Sol Lewitt fashion, as a written instruction is activated and interacts via cell phone, texting, or email. A set of 26 pencil leads gradually melt down from this interaction, sending out a Morse code message in the process; the 26 pencil leads presumably correspond to the 26 letters of the alphabet. Fans of the show might take a hand in what visitors see and hear by remote. But the words and fingerprints of the artist are all over the work.”

Bill Lasarow, ArtScene

This is a complex, real-time composition that seamlessly integrates movement, sound and projected drawings. The space of a day is marked as both a tempo in cylical and obligatory events interwoven with pauses that yield to reflection, creation and doubt. Original choreography, music, and imagery have been developed and will be performed by the ensemble of Ying Zhou, Emily Greenleaf, and Keeara Rhoades.