"Facetime#2" Exhibition
Parker's Box
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Facetime#2 once again brings together two artists from different backgrounds and generations – John Roach, who came to Brooklyn via circuitous routes from far away San Francisco, while Gabriela Vainsencher arrived here by way of Argentina, where she was born, and Israel, where she grew up.
On first encounter, the two artists’ respective practices appear also to be in stark contrast, with Roach being primarily thought of as a sound installation artist, while Vainsencher has invested particular energy in exploring the potential of drawing as an expression of (and antidote to) daily life. John Roach’s practice has come to be centered around objects that relate to sound, whether they are devised to produce them, to transform them, or to react to or with them. The artist’s preoccupation with an interactive element in his work is particularly recurrent, while the cause and effect behind his finished pieces is never limited to functionality alone as it embraces much poetic license and a myriad Fluxus-like digressions and embellishments.
In this way, Roach’s working drawings, for example, might wander off into seemingly unrelated musings, perhaps spawning reveries every bit as philosophical as those often featured in Gabriela Vainsencher’s “Morning Drawings”. In these works, executed each day and posted on the web, Vainsencher juxtaposes motifs – animals and objects, gestures and splashes, as well as text and line. The resulting works can be just as unexpected and puzzling, though often harboring unquestionable truths, as a diagram that John Roach might sketch out in order to help him understand how to connect motion detectors, speakers, magnetic fields and amplifiers so that they will carry out a clearly defined task with whatever mysterious, and evocative results.
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Schedule
from April 07, 2011 to May 01, 2011
Opening Reception on 2011-04-08 from 18:00 to 21:00