Ethan Breckenridge "Long Time, First Time," and Christopher Chiappa "Swiss Cheese"

Kate Werble Gallery

poster for Ethan Breckenridge "Long Time, First Time," and Christopher Chiappa "Swiss Cheese"

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"In Long Time, First Time," Ethan Breckenridge's sculpture takes the proverbial elephant out of the room and into the office. Using glass, dust, plants, shelving units, florescent lights, mirrors, and office carpet, he constructs a hermetic world within the gallery. The material is easily identifiable but the space in his architectural structures is displaced. Within an 8-foot sealed glass cube, plants
continue to grow under florescent lights and they overwhelm one standard size folding office chair. Text written in dust fixed to a glass windowpane is an invitation that desires no response.

Christopher Chiappa's new project using "Swiss cheese" is deceptively simple. Over the past several years he has collected slices of Swiss cheese in delis throughout the U.S. These slices of varying shapes and sizes are converted into computer files and blown up, then water jet cut out of aluminum. Finally, they are painted at an auto-
body shop to replicate the color and finish of real pieces of Swiss cheese. The end result is a system of sculpture with a strange mixture of reverence and skepticism.

[Ethan Breckenridge Untitled (Plant Cube), (2008), Glass, 2-way mirror, plants and commercial materials 106 x 50 x 31 in.]

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from October 04, 2008 to November 08, 2008

Opening Reception on 2008-10-04 from 18:00 to 20:00

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