"One of the compelling strengths of a new audio-video installation...by Leon Grodski titled The Umbrella (The Points of Contact No. 1)...is its total rethinking of the relationship between the viewer and the [film] video imagery and its incorporation of a fully integrated, multifaceted sensory experience."

—Kyle MacMillan, Denver Post

   

"It's not easy to highlight all the noteworthy pieces, which include performance by Martha Rosler, drawings by Roger Welch, and documentation of Tehching Hsieh's "One Year Performances" (1978–1986). The videos—like Derrick Adam's short and sweet Party Crasher, 2001, and Leon Grodski's Great Balls of Fire, 2002, which follows a homeless man around New York in the immediate aftermath of the attack on the World Trade Center—look particularly good. "24/7" hinges on the electrifying communication between these and other very different works."

—Liutauras Psibilskis, Artforum

   

"Grodski's short but astonishing film [installation called Great Balls of Fire] is a shocking antidote to the wall-to-wall, glossy, hi-tech, stars-and-stripes ultra-nationalist TV coverage of the atrocity which prevailed in its wake..."

—Richard Dyer, Contemporary Magazine

   

Leon Grodski -- The Sushi Bar
Presently Exhibiting Installations:
The Umbrella (The Points of Contact #1)
Great Balls of Fire
Je Vais Sur la Terre qui ne Reste pas, Swift Nude _____, No. 247
Dithyramb

     
    © Leon Grodski & The Sushi Bar LLC 2003