Lisa Sanditz "Sock City"
CRG Gallery
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In the winter of 2006-2007 Sanditz traveled to single-industry towns in China; places whose industry is focused on the production of specific and often singular products. These places, located largely in China's Pearl River Delta have been unofficially renamed by the items they produce: Sock City (Yiwu), Shoe City (Jinjiang), Oil Painting Village (Shenzhen) among many others. These burgeoning micro-economies dedicated to producing fantastic amounts of a single commercial product for export have dramatically transformed the Chinese landscape; furiously shifting the pastoral to the industrial. Sanditz describes these places in her signature amalgam of fancifully ornate and pictorially bound marks; forming seemingly endless seas of product showrooms, factories, and neon signs that emerge from the murky smog saturated backgrounds of her canvas.
[Image: Lisa Sanditz "The World's Largest Sock Market" (2008) acrylic on linen 67 X 86 5/8 in.]
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Schedule
from October 23, 2008 to November 29, 2008