"City" Exhibition
Bridge Gallery
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City presents a group of contemporary New York artists who see the reality we all share of undiscovered possibilities and find potential in everyday life of the city. It has become a fundamental human condition as 53% of human populations live in a world of cities and urban environment. CITY explores the idea of urban landscape and it’s resulting effect on the human condition. ‘Real city, fantasy city, they seem to feed each other in a never-ending circle’ (sanders). In a world of ever changing urban landscape the artists in this group-show encourage the viewer, through their own theorization of spatial conditions that reveal an on-going fascination with the divergent architectural urban-scapes to engage…. CITY is a fleeting glimpse into the process whereby architecture polices both the mind and body of the modern individual. The urban landscape has entered into our visual vocabulary. The works riff on ideas pulled from contemporary culture in its majestic landscape along with its seedy underbelly.
Penley Chiang uses a tectonic palette to construct images of allegorical worlds. He is influenced by his formal studies in biology, art, and architecture, and by his personal pursuits in philosophy and economics.
Form Poems, autodidactic drawings, and useless drawings by Caleb Crawford: The great gift of architecture is its ability to create worlds. We value architecture’s utility, but we prize its ability to astonish. His drawings are a means of creating architecture.
Gerri Davis balances a series of dichotomies—high art and popular culture; stylization and subjectivity; realism and fiction—through dramatic brushwork and richly modulated surfaces.’ When commissioned to paint the view from a patron’s terrace it took some time looking at the expansive vista to figure out how to squeeze it into the confines of a rectangular frame. The resultant synthetic portrait of Soho uses the street below as a horizon (it really is a straight line when you look down) and reels the view in, rather than projecting the viewer out.’
Trained as an architect, Serban Ionescu’s fascination lies within the city, urban living, migration and the effects of the given moment on art. Distilling his perceptions down to their essence in black and white works on paper, Ionescu transforms his own observations through a series of ‘drawings’ filled with gestural figuration and pithy text messages.
Raylene Gorum presents views of New York City, San Francisco, and London places and pleasures captured with affection and originality. The work plays on history, topography, humanity and its relationship with architectural environments.
The Objectionists -Works from Object City: Object City is the creation of a group of NYC artists/architects exploring the meaning of modern urban environments. In Object City we find remnants of past cities along with ideas of violence, laughter and debt.
Justin Smith works consists of a series of architectural sculptures investigating the coexistence of abstract and figural spatial constructs within the fleeting passage of time.
Ryan & Trevor Oakes: The Oakes twins have collaborated on various visual explorations since the age of three. Now in there 20’s, they have developed a remarkable new method for tracing the world before them onto a curved surface, completely freehand and by eye alone. This method has been described by Columbia University’s perceptual historian Jonathan Crary as one of the most original breakthroughs in the rendering of visual space since the Renaissance.
[Image:Raylene Gormun "Gilded London" Mylar, tape, paint, paparazzi collage, London underground map, Posh, Paris, Lindsay, buildings of Knightsbridge 23 x 32 in.]
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Schedule
from January 12, 2012 to February 06, 2012