Katie Shima "Living Machines"
Devotion Gallery
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The Living Machines are a series of hand-drawn images in ink and graphite on vellum made using traditional architectural drafting techniques. The drawings look into the ways in which industrialized societies replace natural processes with artificial ones in order to maintain their standard of living, or ways in which they might do so in the future. Parts of these mechanical landscapes are drawn with technical accuracy, in section or elevation, like architectural documentation, but the hand-drawn, illustrative quality of the technique adds depth, nuance, and mood, helping to draw out the narratives of the allegorical machines.
Katie Shima (b. 1982, MArch Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation) is an artist and architectural designer based in New York City. Katie has had exhibitions, installations, and performances at the Charles Bank Gallery (NurtureArt Benefit 2012), Clocktower Gallery, Barnard College, The Tank, SoHo 20, Postcrypt Gallery, and The Stable in New York City, as well as D. A. K. and Science Friction Gallery in Denmark. Katie is a founding member of the electronic noise art group Loud Objects; residencies with the Loud Objects include Art On Air in New York and Det Jyske Kunstakademi in Aarhus, Denmark.
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Schedule
from November 16, 2012 to November 25, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-11-16 from 19:00 to 23:00