"Ways of Seeing" Exhibition

Carolina Nitsch Project Room

poster for "Ways of Seeing" Exhibition

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Upon entering the gallery the viewer is immediately confronted by Them, 2005, Richard Dupont’s sculpture comprised of 8 distorted figures atop a wooden platform. Each is pulled, stretched or squashed on a different axis. These cloned shape shifters stand like totems in cyberspace; perhaps cautionary markers along our “information superhighway” reminding us that we are not only comprised of our physical self, but also our “digital” self.

We also find a somewhat related tangled web of vectors in E.V. Day’s recent Bridal Glove, 2010. EV’s sculpture captures this garment as a specimen in a bell jar causing us to wonder if this is some Victorian relic or a time capsule for future generations to ponder. Day’s work often involves women’s clothing and undergarments manipulated in ways to create unexpected associations with technology, science and the political gender status quo. For Hugh Hefner’s Private Jet, 1999 she steals the format of the blueprint away from the male dominated architecture profession and offers a humorous metaphor of the male psyche as internal and external organs in an orgasmic explosion.

Alyson Shotz, long interested in how we experience science and technology, also has created a series of works that employ lines and vectors, which she has titled 4-dimensional string drawings. These pieces allude to theories in physics regarding alternate dimensions of reality and string theory. Her work on the South wall, comprised of pencil, pins, and string, creates a delicate abstract form that seems to be unfolding and shifting as we get closer or view it from different angles.

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from July 01, 2010 to July 31, 2010

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