This exhibition, by two American artists, is some distance off the beaten track, and both are individual figures with their own distinctive angle of vision. Spector's works are not easily described; by tearing printed papers across - sometimes a number at a time - and fitting the torn edges together, he achieves effects of considerable subtlety and refinement. A banal description, and the volume of work involved must be horrific, yet it is justified by the result.
Spector seems to be enamoured by books, texts, printed materials, even the very act of reading - an ultra-fashionable obsession, admittedly - but what he makes of this is in no way literary. He mounts his materials rather like straightforward pictures or prints and some have even a figurative character (human hands, etc). Other works have a decorative, almost oriental refinement and are virtually abstract pictures.
The more ambitious Author's Conference places a number of "books" on a wooden table and is an excellent visual "conceit", as well as evoking a curious sense of mystery and tension. Otherwise Spector works inside a limited range and format, but in this rather small arena his taste and imagination are sure.
Claudia Matzko, by contrast, is a sculptor, most of whose works are mounted on the gallery walls. She seems to me most successful when she creates single pieces, e.g. the striking bronze Crown or the untitled lead piece in the lower gallery, which turns out to be based on a bone in the human ear (enlarged). Her more ambitious and complex works, such as Family Tree, are less convincing and also less original. Until July 26th.