Rosa Ruey "Big Machine"
Masters & Pelavin
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Ruey’s work is sculptural in nature. She employs drawing and collage as a way to create fantastic structures and spaces on paper. This work is part of a new series that involves drawn and hand-printed elements that are collaged to build up whimsical machine-like structures. Ruey’s work is labor intensive with manic detail that constitutes an optimistic interpenetration of natural and industrial building blocks. The individual components that make up each piece—abstracted industrial and domestic forms—are meant to unravel the viewers associations with the objects in their environment. Each component is infused with a bright artificial hue referencing colors found in popular and contemporary culture. The combination of these saturated colors is a form of exaggeration that aids in placing the work in the realm of another world.
The Chrono-Particle Processor, one of the largest pieces in the show, was inspired by the artist’s obsession with time. It is a playful architectural model of a time machine. This time machine is not built to travel through time but rather to re-distribute time among individuals. The work looks at contemporary and possible future conceptions of space and time, and questions our use of the time we are “given.”
In this new body of work Ruey discusses humanity’s desire to control the uncontrollable by using the implications of large machines seeking physical truth such as the Large Hadron Collider. Fear, doubt and anxiety are just some of the emotions that we collectively experience in navigating hierarchical systems. This work proposes transforming that overwhelming energy into hopeful and playful systems while capturing the sublime magic that surrounds imagination.
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Schedule
from February 24, 2011 to April 02, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-02-24 from 18:00 to 20:00