"GROUNDWORK: landscape, materiality, and terrain" Exhibition
Storefront Ten Eyck
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BETH GANZ
Using photogravures of trees and shadows in both negative and positive, this new work reflects impressionistic and decorative representations of nature. The flux between the surface of the image and the photograph's illusory depth alludes to landscape painting's historical legacy of bringing inside the outside, of offering a window onto another world. The element of nostalgia imparted by the nineteenth century process of photogravure is at once maintained and disrupted by the play between negative and positive, surface and depth simultaneously encouraging and foiling escape into contrived worlds, much like traditional landscape painting.
LETHA WILSON
Wilson uses images and materials from the natural landscape as a starting point for interpretation and confrontation. Her work creates relationships between architecture and nature, and the gallery space and the American wilderness. In the photo-based sculptures the ability for a photograph to transport the viewer is both called upon, and questioned; sculptural intervention attempts to compensate for the photograph’s failure to encompass the physical site it represents. Landscape photography as a genre is approached with equal parts reverence and skepticism. In another body of work, site-specific installations juxtapose re-claimed wood and drywall material in innovative ways that respond to both interior and outdoors environments, and comment on the glut of material discarded in the contemporary art exhibition cycle.
RENA LEINBERGER
Images and building materials taken from the related processes of construction and entropy form the basis of Rena Leinberger’s work. The sites and landscapes created by these removals and rebuildings are ordinary, ubiquitous, yet socially charged spaces. She dislocates objects, structures and images of these environments and rebuilds them with shifts in materials determined through a reciprocal logic. Ordinary construction materials are allowed to stand in for elements of the image or other materials and objects. The substitutions are aesthetically slight – it looks about like what it is – and flimsier than the original. The reality they begin to project are simulations of the idea of reality, and often the simulations are also duplicated. The constructed idea, or abstracted constructed idea, is a confounding experience that produces an inquiry into notions of material failure, artifice, collapse, and the collapse of ideologies that accompany our architectures.
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Schedule
from March 25, 2011 to April 17, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-03-25 from 18:00 to 21:00