His exuberant sculptures of the period unfold within
the personal space of the viewer, shifting dramatically in appearance as s / he walks around them, although they mark a departure from the figure as subject, a sense of liberation from the concentrated weight, scale, and ordered naturalism of the body endures.
Not exact matches
Attendees will receive a line
of exclusive PlayStation Home / EVO virtual items: Visitors on Friday will receive a limited edition EVO t - shirt for their PlayStation Home avatar; on Saturday players will be rewarded with a special fighting stick companion item; and on Sunday all
viewers will receive a replica
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personal spaces.
The repetition
of forms and lines establishes a seriality while also locating the
viewer in a deeply
personal space.
By combining both realism with the many techniques favored by the surrealists, including the alteration
of space, perspective, tonality, focus, manipulation, the content
of the image is then open to the
viewer's
personal interpretation.
Here, Place the Lever is reversible language that beckons the
viewer outside the comfort
of personal space toward loaded contingency.
Many
of Crosby's paintings are actually portals
of some kind or another, providing glimpses into her
personal life while momentarily transporting the
viewer to the domestic
spaces she experienced as a child in Nigeria.
In the adjoining side gallery, the Screen Combines take the tools
of productions out
of the paintings and into the
viewer's
personal space.
Opening with Rachel Rossin's I Came and Went as a Ghost Hand (Cycle 2), 2015 which will run until 18 March, where
viewers will experience her depiction
of personal spaces, studios and bedrooms created from digitally manipulated images.
Inviting the
viewer to enter a
space charged with symbolic elements, from the more obvious to the more covert, that configure the multiple realities and readings which give life to the artist's
personal universe, «Something old, something new, something borrowed» essentially speaks
of personal records and comforts,
of the past and the present,
of what was and what is — a series
of reflections that convey a repertoire
of emotions, interests, and stories particularly important to the author: distant family recollections, but also recent intimate memories; pleasant re-connections with domesticity after long periods
of travel in the real world, but also disconnections and ironic provocations with the virtual world
of social media; a long relationship with the universe
of animation and video games, but also another with themes
of classical representation from the history
of art.
The eleven artists juxtapose divergent approaches in conversation with each other, reflecting on primal questions consuming artists over the millennia: Elliot Arkin's conceptual use
of web - based commerce spins an absurdist view on the commodification
of artists; Babette Bloch's stainless steel reassessments
of nature and artistic precedent limn positives and negatives through light; Christopher Carroll Calkins's street photography captures moments
of under - the - radar narratives; Valentina DuBasky's acrylic and marble dust works on paper and plaster are a contemporary comment on the prehistory
of art; Gabriel Ferrer's performance - like in - the - moment sumi - ink drawings on handmade paper reflect on memory and
personal narrative; Christopher Gallego's realist, pure light - filled oil painting elevates the ordinariness
of an artist's
space to visual poetry; Ana Golici, in pergamano and collage, takes inspiration from 17th Century female naturalist, entomologist and botanical illustrator Maria Sibylla Merian to explore questions
of science, nature and objective truth; Emilie Lemakis's monumental amplification
of an ancient Greek krater employs scale to upend perceptions for the
viewer's reconsideration; Mark Mellon's bronzes address the oppositions
of movement and stillness; the alchemy
of Michael Townsend's uncontrolled poured acrylic paintings equate the properties
of materials with the turbulence
of the universe; Jessica Daryl Winer's engagement with luminous color and choreographic line reflects in visual resonance the sonic history
of a musical instrument.
From Heilmann's and Davidson's
personal and quirky approaches, to Davie's sculptural undulations, Schifano's reductive vocabulary, Owens» and van Genderen's investigations
of space, and, finally, Levine's sentimentally wise paintings, the work in this exhibit addresses ideas
of pleasure for both the artist making the work and
viewer beholding it.
Viewers» efforts to truly experience the
personal space of the artist are thwarted, which is perhaps the point
of Suh's project.
From far away many
of these paintings appear to be large - scale gestural abstractions, but on closer inspection the
viewer detects total flatness — the abstract paint marks were actually photographed and silkscreened on top
of images
of personal spaces, creating an image
of abstraction rather than the abstraction itself.
The works construct a
personal, narrative journey in which magic dominates and transcends physical and psychological
space ultimately leading the
viewer to a unique understanding
of the nature
of knowledge itself and how we come to construct, acquire and utilize this powerful tool.