NEW YORK, NY.- Jack Hanley Gallery will present Contemporary Fossil Record, a group exhibition of eight New York-based artists.

The exhibition showcases works that, like fossils, record human existence through a fragmented collection of impressions, molds, and traces of activity. The artists use the textural landscape of their surroundings to delve into the evolving significance and decay of objects, spaces, and memories.

Marie Lorenz creates metronomes from cast detritus found in the tidal New York City waterways. Viewers are able to set the metronome into motion, mirroring the rhythm of the water from which the original objects came. Jeff Williams is interested in the materiality of architectural surfaces and crafts clothing from rubber molds of weathered exteriors of rice silos.

Liz Magic Laser's Distressed doesn't utilize a static impression, rather, it records the choreographed gestures of dancers as they rub their new jeans on the city's rough sidewalks, resulting in a reflection of a particular style of our time. Lorenzo Bueno used mixed media to sculpt a model of Judson Memorial Church - a venue dedicated to experimental dance and movement. His interpretation formalizes how the subconscious recreates spaces and includes personal and historical photographs.

Zora Moniz's collaged wall works use frottage, nails, and carved tin cans to map out the area where she frequently walks. Walking through the city also inspires Clémence de La Tour du Pin's practice, who uses concrete-looking material to encapsulate assemblages of found images and detritus.

Sofia Sinibaldi documents the city using a portable scanner and a camera. She prints the images on translucent tissue paper and layers them into collages using a clear medium, which adds delicate texture to the compositions. Lastly, Lyric Shen's images are water transferred onto irregular hand-made clay slabs, a technique that purposefully alters the photograph, thus grappling with the passage of time and our attempts at preserving it.