NYAB Event - “Pulp” Exhibition

“Pulp” Exhibition

Lorimoto

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Anastasia Zielinski will be featuring a series of paper collages that began while she spent several years traveling the world. Frustrated with the lack of texture she was able to achieve with watercolor & oil pastels, she began collaging in her journal as a lightweight & portable option while traveling in India & throughout South America. She fell in love with this knew material that allowed her to build her collages much in the same way as paintings. She was able to layer and visually mix colors of paper & fabric. Anastasia earned a BFA from Pratt Institute, NYC and is currently based in Seattle, WA.

Michael Leavitt will be featuring paper sculptures from his Hip Hopjects series. Michael sees everyday and urban objects merely as his palette for replicating landscapes of life, somewhere between a painterly impression and ironic conceptual art statement. He simply thinks of these as ‘big kid toys’, as if adults can still play make-believe too. Though each object is an original sculpture hand-made from scratch, each is somewhat functional and durable enough for even a bit of light ‘play’. Michael earned a BA from The Evergreen State College, Olympia WA and is currently based in Seattle, WA.

Clive Murphy will feature The Inflatable Cardboard Boxes which are part of an ongoing series of works which consist of discarded, tattered cardboard boxes which been dissected, soaked, ‘skinned’, reformatted and then reassembled, after which time a custom made inflatable PVC bladder is placed inside, complete with a conspicuous protruding ‘beach ball’ style rubber valve.
Clive’s practice draws from the peripheries of visual culture. Mining diverse sources he utilizes the formal properties of the commonplace to produce works that create a junction of societal and cultural phenomenon. He appropriates and reconfigures familiar signifiers in order to explore their wider cultural resonance, uncovering new ground for the proliferation of diverse meanings. His work concerns itself with both site and surface - not only the position of the individual within an increasingly ‘mass’ oriented environment but also the contours, the landscapes through which this environing is revealed.
Exploring themes of hierarchy, inter-relationality and meaning formation, he infiltrates sites of visual signification with a combination of pathos and incongruity, reconstituting ideological, cultural and rhetorical systems in an effort to situate a new sense of human space. Clive earned an MFA from the University of Ulster, Belfast and is currently based in Brooklyn, NY.