“Show #7” Exhibition
The Parlour Art Gallery
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The work in this show explores the passage of time, the art of a fraud and the dichotomy of using the mundane as a resource to create beautiful imagery. Using memory and personal histories the artists create mysterious narratives and wondrous happenings.
Steven Arnerich records a culture that is dying out due to new technology. Like fossils his monoprints convey a passage of time reminding the viewer of a past era, and an important tool of a culture that is no longer necessary.
The muted and intense palate reveals a sophisticated sense of color, the result of a maturity in art practice and a rigorous printmaking process.
With the help of producers Eve Sussman and Simon Lee the former con artists Jack+Leigh Ruby riff on their previous occupation as insurance scam artists having embarked on a new career as conceptual visual artists. After serving 13 years in prison for a scam that involved robbing their own house, Jack+Leigh came to rethink how to define their past and their future. Taking one of their staged photographs that they made in the 70’s as a jumping off point and shooting on a 35mm film the Ruby’s have created a confounding intrigue entitled “Car Wash Incident”. From the film quality, to the scenery, to the wardrobe, the aesthetic of the piece matches the original faked evidentiary photograph. Played on old televisions the videos deftly recreate the time period as well as describe an arcane story. Initially deluding corporations the Ruby’s are now using their skills to turn over a new leaf and once again transform their life. This in turn makes one question the idea of morality. Both how it effects our understanding of reality as well as the role of artists and what they are obligated to present as “truth”.
Lindsay Packer plays with ideas of what we see, what we perceive and what is actually there. She makes videos and sculpture that tell a story of how an image works. A projection of moving horses is the outcome of a highly involved network of string, tape, mirrors and sticks. These objects “mostly found” compliment the moving image and strengthen the feeling of nostalgia and memory that exists in her work. An old ironing board has tee shirts stuffed underneath, by projecting a light through this that then hits a cut out stencil of abstract waves we see a rippling ocean on the wall thus creating an illusion while simultaneously giving full disclosure. Her work allows the banal and the magical to coexist.
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Schedule
from September 13, 2013 to October 13, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-09-13 from 18:00 to 21:00