Tyler Healy, Dean Levin and Evan Robarts Exhibition
Ed. Varie
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Ed. Varie presents new work from New York based artists Tyler Healy, Dean Levin and Evan Robarts. Participants in a private residency, Artha Project, based in the Brooklyn Navy Yards, each artist has been able to examine previous practices and develop new bodies of work, as well as create collaborative projects within their studio walls.
Tyler Healy, born and raised in New York, holds a BFA in Product Design from Parsons the New School for Design. As an ongoing study of the physical, technological, cultural and emotional connection that one shares with current technologies Healy installs a record of the explorer and the voyeur. Healy re-contextualizes every day iconography and unaltered low-resolution images, turning small flashes of everyday imagery into large-scale works of art, forcing the viewer to face how they experience the modern world through technology, and the mundane. Healy has participated in group exhibitions in Manhattan at 48 Bowery, Bleecker Street Art Club, Lesley Heller Gallery, RH Gallery, Nicola Formichetti Studio and Temp, in Brooklyn at AMO and Monster Island.
Dean Levin born in Johannesburg, and raised in Los Angeles, holds a BARCH from Pratt Institute. Critiquing the diversions that individuals create to escape the daily routine, Levin redefines and extends the literal gallery space with the use of televisions and plant life. Levin continues his exploration of the mental diversion known as escapism with the use of movies and fantasies of vacation to alleviate and forget one’s own troubles or problems. Levin has participated in group exhibitions in Manhattan at Bleecker Street Art Club, Lesley Heller Gallery, RH Gallery, Nicola Formichetti Studio and Temp, and in Brooklyn at AMO and Monster Island.
Evan Robarts born in Miami, holds a BFA in Sculpture from Pratt Institute. Employing both new and found objects that personally and freely associate childhood and nostalgia, Robarts investigates material, color, and object as a sculptural platform. By removing these objects from their intended usage, Robarts creates a unique narrative and highlighting particular elements compelling to the artist and viewer. Robarts has participated in group exhibitions in Paris at Galerie Olivier Robert, in Manhattan at White Box Gallery, RH Gallery, Temp, and Schoolhouse, in Brooklyn at Still House and Open Source, and in Miami at the South Florida Art Center and the Martin Margulies Warehouse.
Serving as a documentary project, an untitled booklet, based on the process and studio environment of Healy, Levin and Robarts, photographed by Clément Pascal and Johnny Knapp, designed by GG - LL, and published in collaboration with Ed. Varie, will be available in a very limited edition on opening night.
[Image: Evan Robarts “Stuck” (2013) Found Objects, 16” x 32”]
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Schedule
from May 10, 2013 to June 02, 2013
Opening Reception on 2013-05-10 from 18:00 to 21:00