Shanna Maurizi “Dark Space”
Songs For Presidents
[Image: Shanna Maurizi "Untitled" (2015) Video Still, Crystal Archive print, emulsion removed 50 x 36 in.]
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Songs for Presidents presents Dark Space, Shanna Maurizi’s third solo exhibition in New York. Shanna Maurizi’s work employs drawing, photographic intervention, painting and video in a freeform pursuit of imagery that oscillates between the actual and the archetypical.
Maurizi’s area of inquiry is the dark space between the present moment and the recorded moment, the image and its object. Manifesting as ideas across temporal distance, shapes and forms transmute from photographs to obsessive, accumulative contour drawings, to paintings and back again to photography in a reproductive loop, all in an ongoing search for the subject. Pyramids and uncanny black orbs degrade and reconstitute, the labor of description evident as they grow and shrink in scale and are photographed under changing light.
Maurizi traveled to a vast water cave in the Slovenian forest, where the limited color spectrum offered by fleeting and artificial light sources compromises fidelity in perception. Stripping away the light sensitive emulsion on the surface of her mural prints of these underground spaces uncovers an afterimage burned into the backing paper, a memory embedded in material, imprecise and atavistic.
Shanna Maurizi is an artist and experimental filmmaker living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Her work has been featured at Anthology Film Archives, Dose Projects, Famous Accountants, Observatory, Gallery 825 Los Angeles, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, SF’s Other Cinema, SF Cinematheque, the Rotterdam Kunsthal and D’Clinic Studios in Lendava, among many others. Recently she completed a residency in Slovenia, which was a point of departure forDark Space. Currently she has a film project in Croatia under development, and has been invited to a 2015 residency at Popp’s Packing in Detroit.
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Schedule
from April 04, 2015 to May 10, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-04-04 from 19:00 to 22:00