Visitors leave the warm summer air and traverse a passage of ice floes to enter Glyndor Gallery. Setting the stage for the entire exhibition, Michael Krondl’s installation creates a physically disorienting space that alters the experience of the surroundings. Photographic images of floating ice are printed on vinyl and adhered to the floor, creating an uneasy, icy floor that is jarringly juxtaposed with the formal entrance foyer. This odd insertion into a gracious domestic setting suggests that the effects of global warming are potentially very close to home.

Michael Krondl has had solo exhibitions at Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, Synagoga na Palmovce Art Center, Prague, Czech Republic; and Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada. He has created public art projects at the Neptune Avenue Subway Station, Brooklyn, NY, and the Tiepelo Project at 47 West Street in lower Manhattan through the Time Equities Art in Buildings Program. He has also exhibited at Evergreen House, Baltimore, MD; Schroeder Romero Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY; and the Hopper House, Nyack, NY. He has received grants from Artslink and the Canada Council.