“HeavyLite” Exhibition
Kim Foster Gallery
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HeavyLite is an exhibition of artists that blend together high art and popular culture. Christian Faur replaces the pixel in digital photography with hand casted crayons. Dan Hernandez combines imagery from video games with iconic images from Byzantine and Renaissance art. Sherry Karver’s media are photography and painting, but her method is literary, exposing our most intimate foibles. Kathryn Siegler illuminates and transforms disposable objects to comment on pop culture, consumerism and nostalgia.
Faur begins by deconstructing a single image into its most basic elements of tone, color, form and resolution. The highly manipulated image is then reconstructed with individually cast wax “pixels.”Hernandez creates a visual dialogue of religion, mythology, and pop culture. He blurs boundaries, rearranges hierarchies and calls into question our notions of iconography, collectibles and devotion. Karver’s work speaks directly to, and plays with social media and its access to just the right amount of too much information. It sets us adrift among our peers, imagining for us who they are, who they are trying to be, and why they happen to be where they are at that moment, dressed as they are, poised as they are, acting as they are. Siegler appreciates advertising techniques, the quality of packaging and the artistry of design in everyday commercial objects, the humor and wit in the product names, all of which are meant to be consumed and discarded. But when the objects are isolated and showcased, people see them in a completely different light and they take on whole new meanings, multiple meanings.
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Schedule
from January 08, 2015 to February 14, 2015
Opening Reception on 2015-01-08 from 18:00 to 20:00
Artist(s)
Christian Faur, Dan Hernandez, Sherry Karver, Kathryn Siegler