NEW YORK, NY.- Gallery Molly Krom is presenting More, I Need More..., a solo exhibition of recent works by Brooklyn based artist Elise P. Church. The work selected for this artist's first solo show at Gallery Molly Krom is a result of a process that starts with the re appropriation of somebody else's domestic treasures. Sifting through piles of ripped, worn, discarded, dented, second hand, painted, flat, folded, cracked, broken materials is the first step in making the work. These unwanted pieces are given a new life and saved from disappearance by becoming a new whole : a collage, a sculpture, an installation. Her collages and sculptures are taped, glued, drawn, scratched, fit and cut elements forming a whole. An assemblage of parts, the periphery and the negative space become as important as the interior composition.

"I am building large foundations out of small handfuls," says Elise, making an oblique reference to Franz Kline's statement "Painting is like hand-stuffing a mattress."

The need to amass objects that on the surface have no obvious use or value is a familiar one. William Davies King, in his memoir Collections of nothing, writes: "since I could not (easily) have something, then nothing would be what I'd want, but I'd always have to have some nothing to distract me from the fact that I never had no something..." This insight is echoed by Elise P. Church, who writes about her childhood being a series of moves, during which she repeatedly lost what she tried to accumulate, and the process of accumulation became a way to "cement the world" she inhabited. The title of this show reflects the artist's need rather than a desire not only to gather discarded objects, but to assure their longevity or, perhaps, immortality by transforming them into art objects.

Elise P. Church was born in Boston, MA . She presently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She attended Lacoste School of Arts and Parsons School of Design in Paris. Her work has been shown in many exhibitions across the country and abroad, more recently at Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY (2012), Bermuda Society of Arts, Hamilton, Bermuda (2012), Castello 925, Venice, Italy. She is a recipient of the Philip Guston Material Award. Her collaboration with Gallery Molly Krom began a year ago with a group show Come Together : Collage. Her work was included in the project Women with Means at CutLog 2014, New York.