building dwelling thinking

Lisa Sigal sculpts with window screens, adding rectangles of color, layering screen over screen, setting them at right angles to each other.  She also uses torn paper, hinges, and other found objects, and the resulting pieces in her current show at NOMA Gallery are often humorous when they aren't merely entrancing.  A loose ring of bricks on the floor of the gallery encircle a piece of black paper to create the semblance of a hole, while nearby Sigal has opened up a panel in the wall to reveal a dusty space normally used to stash fire extinguishers and placed one of her colored screens inside.  Her installations in their three-dimensionality comment directly on architecture, and even her more traditional collages seem to cascade across their mountings and threaten to bust right out of their frames.  I'm not sure I'll ever look at even the most utilitarian window screen in exactly the same way again either.