Cynthia Talmadge @ Carl Kostyal

Winter Break, a new installation of sculptures by Cynthia Talmadge.  The works in this exhibition are emotive and suffused with a pervasive sense of melancholy – what Talmadge has described as “the feeling of being the only person left in the dorms over winter break.”

The detritus of a previous semester, left by students who have since departed school for vacation – discarded flyers advertising expired student activities and unutilized mental health resources; cigarette butts; coffee cups; a lost scarf and earring; a used nitrous cannister; an abandoned course reader – are scattered across or attached by peeling tape to the bulbous bronze surface of a second-rate Henry Moore-derivative sculpture whose amorphous structure dominates one gallery in Class Gift.