Sam Lewitt “Casual Encounters”
Miguel Abreu Gallery
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Casual Encounters treats the floorplan of 88 Eldridge Street as a diagram of circulation. On display are plastic backed copper sheets used in flexible electronic circuit manufacturing. These sheets are milled with coarse material executions of an algorithm that plots a path with in an architectural drafting program between optimal viewpoint s into the gallery’s every room. Lewitt uses this excessively rationalized navigation of the site of exhibition as a starting point.
The kind of algorithm used to chart the space — visible in an animation on the gallery’s web page — is commonly deployed to analyze and enhance spatial logistics and motion planning in architecture, urban environments, first person shooter games, and emergency management. In the series of Weak Local Lineaments on view, this type of spatial modeling and its planning of smooth perfect paths, materializ es in to collapsed sinews and abraded arteries . The surfaces of these works result from the indelicate milling of thin - skinned supports with a CNC router not sensitive enough to perfectly separate the layers of bonded materials into which it cuts.
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Schedule
from November 09, 2014 to January 11, 2015
Opening Reception on 2014-11-09 from 18:00 to 20:00