"Urban Construction" Exhibition
ArtGate Gallery
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Urban Construction (curated by Jae Yang | Art- merge) is a group exhibition featuring three artists from Los Angeles and New York-Brian Cooper, Peter Gregorio and Alexander Severin-that re-conceptualizes and re-contexualizes the abstraction. myths, and quantitative realities inherent in the built environment. \Nihin each of these artists'work, a unique line of questioning seems to arise:
Is the urban landscape merely an outcropping of disinterested design. a series of containers and connections in which individuality is usurped by sheer mass, and personal expression gives ground to economies of scale? What role do symbols and structure-in law, logistics, markets and physical space-play in our experienced lives? Do they inspire or do they merely sedare? Are rnodern memes indicators of our breakthroughs in understanding. or shortcuts to forgetting?
And what about the idea ofthe city as evolutionary player-urbanism as organism-with genetic impulses seeping from every window and doorway? What are the repercussions for the occupants of a city that has become itselfautonomous, even sentient?
Architecture and public spaces are. like art. human-born creations that result in an often dizzying. oblique. even abstract experience-but can the built environment ever truly inspire in the same way that an does?
Cooper, Gregorio and Severin have each individually addressed these issues implicitly and explicitly in their work for Urban Construclion.
[Image: Peter Gregorio "Technopolis One" (2011) Duraclear Print on Poly 36 x 36 in.]
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Schedule
from June 16, 2011 to July 12, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-06-16 from 18:00 to 20:00