NEW YORK, NY.- Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York presents Touched, a thematic exhibition featuring works by Noriko Ambe, Klara Kristalova, Brett Lund, Maria Nepomuceno, Angel Otero, and Allison Schulnik, on view at 540 West 26th Street from June 24 – August 13, 2010. Touched presents a variety of abstract and representational, hand-crafted works—ranging from painting, ceramics and sculpture to fiber art and works with paper—that have been laboriously manipulated. The juxtaposition between artworks that have each been crafted in entirely unique and distinct ways demonstrates each artists’ preoccupation with the remarkably diverse results of their methods. Consumed by her intricate process of hand cutting individual sheets of paper, and adhering them together, Noriko Ambe’s work is at once delicate and monumental. Sculpaper 1, a large floor sculpture that evokes a