Ethan Breckenridge Exhibition
Derek Eller Gallery
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Ethan Breckenridge employs glass and two-way mirror as a membrane, which folds and repeats a language of the familiar. For this project, he creates prisms containing sections of space, along side a series of common windows, covered with city dirt or drywall dust. Within the prisms, living potted plants highlight a division and collaboration between a literal and metaphorical section of time. On nearby windows familiar sayings are scratched in to the dust, appearing like apparitions. The statements are constructed to be powerful in the context of an appropriate conversation, but displaced as they are, they become like a fortune cookie, obviously at a loss for depth.
Breckenridge is interested in transitory places and objects as a means of exploring the presentation and rhetoric of social systems. These objects and architectural motifs facilitate a stylized encounter with the everyday. In the end, the work never exclusively becomes a representation of an experience, or a literal object, rather, the division and displacement of both.
Ethan Breckenridge's work was recently featured in Trapdoor organized by The Public Art Fund at Metrotech in Brooklyn and at Zentrum Paul Klee Sommerakademie in Bern Switzerland. This will be his first exhibition with the gallery.
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Schedule
from January 08, 2010 to February 13, 2010
Opening Reception on 2010-01-08 from 18:00 to 20:00