Included in this exhibition is a photographic sequence that presents McCarthy using his body to make his paintings. In her dramatic installation, Pictures from the Floating World , Barbara Bloom has transformed a gallery into another place. The floor has been painted a deep Chinese red. Around the perimeter of the gallery is a dark boardwalk. A wooden bridge spans the space, creating a gentle arch above the floor.
Viewers can walk over the bridge and look down into the red sea.
Floating on this painted red expanse are small plaster casts of male and female Asian faces. On top of the bridge are vitrines that contain small pornographic images, embedded in a grain of rice, that are viewed through magnifiers attached to each vitrine. This excessive and dramatic installation is about the intrigue of the unknown and the exotic. The vast population and the intimate act and the dramatic exhibition of the ephemeral object. George Segal 's installation of photo-sculptures take over and dominate their space.