Max Razdow and Gustabo Velazquez "Walk the Line/Cross the Line"
Washington Square Windows
This event has ended.
The line gives definition to our world. It leads us places and points us in the right--or the wrong--direction. It pens us in or lets us out. It is above us, below us, next to us, in front, behind. Lines provide boundaries--let us know how far we can go before we breach propriety. It creates structure in structures. Above all, lines tell about journeys; both public and private, individual and collective. Lines are devices that can encompass our whole world.
Max Razdow and Gustabo Velazquez employ line to both tell a story and to create a space that is unique to their experience. Inspired by philosophy, Max Razdow uses vibrant colors and ambiguous imagery to pique the mind and construct illustrative environments. Utilizing the opposing language of architecture and dreams, Razdow produces alternate realms that rely heavily on the metaphors of line. Velazquez furthers the Duchampian principle of taking what is non-art and, by selecting, turns objects into art. Using found materials that reference memory, he creates performative environments that are influenced by urbanity. Together these artists establish a conversation about the representing experience. The construction and de-construction of space are subjects both explore through painting, drawing and sculpture.
This exhibition emanates from conversations with Razdow and Velazquez about the Washington Square Windows as a venue. The works should be understood as addressing this context--the street window. The window is a platform for communication. By framing the experience within a window space, it enables us at once to be a witness to our own world and to perceive it in ways never possible before.
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Schedule
from April 16, 2009 to August 10, 2009