Artist Nick Georgiu finds a way to look at paper, to work with paper, that re-asserts its materiality.

So often we then of paper and paper communication head-on, perpendicular to the flat surface. We deal with paper as a wall or window --- a wall for text and a window for images.

But part of the pleasure of paper is its heft, its grip, its thickness and gravitas . . .  the third dimension . . . the view from the side, the edge.

And it's that view from the edge, the depth of paper, that Georgiu has made his specialty. What he's discovered is a jittery, expressive, painterly, gestural intensity of line from all those edges grouped and stacked and shaped and molded.

He takes stacks of paper (I always get echoes of the stacks at the library, my favorite labyrinth) and lets the edges run wild forming folks and creatures that seem to burst and wriggle and move with the combined power of all their pages.