“Natural Selection” Exhibition
Trestle Gallery (at Brooklyn Art Space)
This event has ended.
Natural Selection engages the idea of the ‘natural’ from multiple angles: from a purely retinal and aesthetic perspective, from social and cultural points of view and even from a somatic, experiential vantage.
Lee Arnold’s Winter Light seeks to represent natural light as pure abstraction. The images take the form of digital collages, which are derived from scanned photographs (shot on film) that were subsequently scanned, cropped, digitally manipulated and output as inkjet prints. These works date from the winter of 2012-2013.
Rick Caruso creates paintings by culling abstract forms from intersecting exterior and interior spaces—the industrial, the domestic, the landscape, the cartoon—and transforming these fragments into something analogous to a visual narrative.
Christina Kelly’s installation work is part of her ongoing project: A Field Guide to Office Plants. Here she displays actual potted plants (Sansevieria, Pothos, and the Janet Craig Dracaena form part of the selection) and, through drawings, text and photographs, explores these popular office plant’s source and how they landed in our cubicles.
Michael Krondl utilizes very large photographs derived from fragments of the natural world that locate the viewer in an uncomfortable and even dangerous space. He is exhibiting new work that engages ideas of falling and drowning.
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Schedule
from May 24, 2013 to June 17, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-05-24 from 19:00 to 21:00