Kate Hoffman's Dream Home series, photographs taken from
performative collage collaborations, has a malleable
quality that emphasizes the viewer's own socio - political leanings; Samira Yamin's intricate patterns
of Islamic sacred geometries cut into TIME Magazine photos
of war oscillate between greater ambiguity and flirting with the didactic depending on the density
of the cuttings; Sandra de la Loza's photographs
of Stoner Spots underscore the politics
of leisure through the exploration
of pot - safe spaces, with a subtext
of the not - quite - yet absorbed by development; Scott Short's «abstract»
paintings replicate multiple generations
of photocopying through the prism
of Walter Benjamin; and Suzanne Wright will exhibit a deftly humorous Étant donnés-esque collage alongside mandala targets — each salves, in their respective forms, for our tumultuous zeitgeist.
Marcus was involved with some
of New York's early performance - based Happenings, and the self - fashioning,
performative possibilities
of different surface
qualities and textures comes across in a number
of the show's
paintings.
This event is part
of an ongoing series
of new performance commissions, made in response to the current exhibition,
Painting from the Zabludowicz Collection, that seek to activate the
performative, material and affective
qualities of the
paintings on display.
Sara Magenheimer often shoots video and still photos
of object arrangements in her studio — rocks that she collects and
paints different colors, sponges, earplugs, display hands, and ceramics — exploring objects»
performative qualities before a camera lens.