Michael Workman

Maybe it's the broken-lined masks with their yawning nose, mouth and eye-holes that makes this show intriguing. It's got a provocative name, too: "Primal Secrets." Woo. Sounds ominous. Vaguely threatening. Will the skeletons come spilling out of the closet? If they don't, there'll still be the birdhouses converted into speakers for audio art, a video called "Pocket Monster" based on an episode of Pokemon and the promised spiral-shaped installation made from masking tape that gallerists Elizabeth Cline and Michael Coleman describe as representing the "economic secret logic of the Golden Mean." Who wouldn't want to check that out? But, getting back to those masks: local art group Total Gym has suggested that visitors print them out from the West Town neighborhood's Foundation Gallery website at www.foundation-gallery.org< /a> and wear them to the show's opening night. It's a tactic sure to win over those with a flair for a little harmless social melodrama.

Total Gym, "Primal Secrets" shows at Foundation Gallery, 700 North Carpenter, (312)860-0740, through June 18.

(2004-06-09)

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