Hyunsuk Erickson’s Thingumabob Tribe #3 spreads out across one of the first-floor galleries of the Ely Center of Contemporary Art. Their sinuous shapes and bright colors might carry, for some viewers, suggestions of meaning. They could be seen as chess pieces, or as rock formations on an alien planet. Or perhaps they’re microscopic shapes brought to the human scale. On the other hand, are they really asking to be understood, to be perceived in that way? They can be taken as is, simply as shapes, forms, colors. Or anything in between, an apprehension of form, the content arising in the viewer.
Erickson’s piece is part of“A Way of Seeing Everything and Nothing,” a group show of 23 artists curated by Suzan Shutan & Howard el-Yasin of SomethingProjects, running now at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art, at 51 Trumbull St., through Jan. 14.
