Beth Krebs' Window Installation Exhibition

Mixed Greens Gallery

poster for Beth Krebs' Window Installation Exhibition

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Mixed Greens presents a site-specific window installation by Beth Krebs. Windows are valuable commodities in New York real estate and gallery windows offer enticing visual access to exhibitions and artworks inside. Krebs humorously challenges our expectations by offering viewers a brick wall. Much of Krebs’ work creates architectural interventions that disrupt the viewer’s assumptions of space. In the woods of McDowell Colony, for instance, she drew a continuous horizon line on the tree trunks in a forest and installed a drop ceiling in a grove of trees. These were poetic gestures carving out an interior—and the illusion of intimacy—in the vast open air. In exhibitions indoors, she created unexpected openings and escape routes. In one such project, panels were removed from the ceiling of a bland, office-like room to reveal a fabricated sky above. In all situations, her art presents unexpected possibilities, or, as she puts it, “makeshift magic from limited means.”In the Mixed Greens windows, Krebs responds to the existing architecture by installing drawings of bricks and bricked-over windows printed on Duratrans. From down the block, Krebs’ drawings present a fairly convincing depiction of sealed windows familiar to most urban dwellers. Upon closer inspection, however, the marks of the drawing and the transparency of the material become evident. A viewer on the street is denied a view into the gallery and is, instead, presented with layers of façade. Hovering between the real and the imagined, Façade invites viewers to consider drawing, truth, and access.

Beth Krebs grew up in Connecticut, lived for nearly a decade in New Orleans, and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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Schedule

from September 06, 2012 to November 10, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-09-06 from 18:00 to 20:00

Artist(s)

Beth Krebs

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