WORKERSHOLIDAY -- Collaborations with David Staniunas

Staniunas and Hinterlang are recent transplants to central Ohio, from Philadelphia and the Bronx, respectively.

Staniunas' large format figurative paintings and Hinterlang's variably-installed digital drawings cover a broad territory of sensibilities -- from East German realism to scatter plots and transit maps -- which, on the surface, as Staniunas himself said, "may not appear ahem synergistic."

Bonded by musical affinities, geography, Iron City, Straub's and fatigue, the two developed a united front.

"It was important to both of us that an official culture not substitute itself for, nor interfere with an expression of the autonomous imperatives of a self-legitimating community," said Hinterlang.

Said Staniunas, "A work's legitimacy derives not from the official sanction of some twat in Le Corbusier glasses, but from the use-value the work provides to, or arouses in its community."