Scott Ingram & Charles LaBelle Exhibition
Kustera Projects Red Hook
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Scott Ingram’s mixed media drawings and photo collages explore the relationships between modern art, architecture and the iconic decorative objects of the era of modernism. Many of the works have been completed on book pages torn from exhibition catalogs, sketch books, and luxurious coffee table books. He “re-draws” on reproductions of Ellsworth Kelly’s work, paints over parts of a classic modern home or cuts into the windows of a postcard depicting an I.M. Pei building. Ingram’s interest lies in the discourse of modernist ideas via innovative presentations of conventional materials and conceptual approach.
For the past twenty years, Charles LaBelle’s work has explored both the geographic and social space of the city. After working in a variety of media for most of his career, as of 2007, LaBelle has devoted himself to a single, on-going project called ‘Buildings Entered’ in which the artist documents every building he physically entered since 1997. Photographing the buildings only once before he enters them, and recording the date, time and the location, LaBelle then enters the information and image into an electronic database. Currently, there are over eleven thousand buildings in the archive. The photographs are never shown but are used as the source material for drawings done in watercolor and graphite and on sheets of paper ranging in size. Conceptual in nature, the project is both a diary and a historical document in which the artist’s own life and the space of the world intersect. By foregrounding the act of “entering” these buildings, LaBelle’s project reveals a broader, phenomenological framework: one that investigates the relationship between architecture and the body, between urban space and the construction of the subject.
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Schedule
from March 26, 2010 to May 01, 2010