Bruce Dow "Love Seats & Cyclones"
Norte Maar
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Bruce Dow transforms modern industrial objects that have been found, collected or acquired. Display stands, floor jacks, racetracks, Pantone colors, and Eames chairs are reclaimed, reshaped, and represented in, not necessarily an entirely new context. Adopting forms and riding the boundary between industrial product and fine art, Dow’s works range from small objects, to furniture, to architecture. Drawing is an integral part of his process, modifying form, adjusting scale, and inserting color.
“These objects are repaired mostly with plaster, the forms being hand built, or cast, attach like an appendage or prosthesis, a biomorphic form attached to its industrial past. Modernism plays a strong role in my work from its implied utopic future. Most recent work has been on Eames chairs, transforming their seemingly perfect forms. Cutting and reconfiguring them into new shapes, they are glued and mended, transforming them into another life.” –Bruce Dow, Brooklyn, 2012
Bruce Dow studied painting at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. His work has been exhibited at the Incident Report Viewing Station, Hudson NY; Jon Gerstand Gallery, NYC; Josh Baer Gallery, NYC; and The Drawing Center, NYC. This is his first exhibition at Norte Maar and the first one-person exhibition since 2007.
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Schedule
from October 12, 2012 to November 18, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-10-12 from 18:00 to 21:00