"Matchmaker" Exhibition
Soho20 Chelsea Gallery
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Curated by gallery director Jenn Dierdorf, the selected works demonstrate each artist’s interest in joining disparate parts and seeking a new balance with the whole. To varying degrees their work can be viewed as reinterpretations of social paradigms in relation to sex, communication, meme and myth. As each artist scrambles these familiar motifs we eventually arrive at a new and poignant vantage from which to look at ourselves.
Amanda Buonocore’s piece, Someone for Everyone, examines the public nature of the newspaper versus the privacy of the bedroom. Through various interventions Buonocore pushes the original intention of the author’s post far beyond the pages of the newspaper and into the world itself. Her playful, yet mischievous insights riffle through the uncomfortable space of exposed privacy.
The interactive sculpture Whisper Down the Lane, by Ginny Huo invites guests to look at the origin and transference of cultural myth. Placing themselves inside large yellow ducts, participants read tales of cautionary myths from a card in a directed game of “telephone”. Huo’s playful approach gives us a fast-forward look at the distortion of these tales and perhaps their skewed origin.
Naoko Ito’s sculpture points to the poetics of the relationship between nature and technology. Her work seeks to rearrange conventional thoughts and question rational categorization. In Flora, Ito has compartmentalized and recomposed a tree branch using dozens of glass jars. Her careful dissection all but sterilizes the once living thing.
Printmaker Krista Peters’ work is a visceral collage of human and non-human parts. Initially lithograph prints from hand drawn images of bones, feathers and string, Peters’ recomposes and layers the prints into original works. The selected works from Bone Mobile series features collage on Japanese paper stitched back together in uncanny formations.
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Schedule
from January 31, 2012 to February 25, 2012
Opening Reception on 2012-02-02 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Amanda Buonocore, Ginny Huo, Naoko Ito, Krista Peters, Allyson Ross