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"Indoor/Outdoor" is a multi-media group exhibition exploring the themes of urban architecture and environment and their relationship to one another.
This DVD has never been screened
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••• Indoor/Outdoor ••• Jennifer Bolande, Matthew Picton, Shirley Shor, Kota Ezawa, Henrik Kam Dimitri Kozyrev, Lordy Rodriguez, Elizabeth Graham, Katrin Sigurdardottir "Indoor/Outdoor" is a multi-media group exhibition exploring the themes of urban architecture and environment and their relationship to one another. Urban architecture conveys so many meanings ranging from dislocation, cultural changes, and emotions that many artists are drawn to work with empty spaces, renderings of buildings and cities, cartography and topography. The environment is a sensitive social issue nowadays and architects are often challenged to mesh organic and mathematics. By using drafting techniques and faking others, nine artists from New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Canada are taking the challenge to address these issues. Jennifer Bolande lives and works in New York city. Skyscrapers are her everyday surroundings and so is her art. Bolande photographed the facades of skyscrapers and rebuilt them to scale. The light boxes are miniature buildings bringing back memories with a sense of isolation as they stand alone away from their "native" surroundings. Dimitri Kozyrev seems to find his inspiration on the freeways of Los Angeles. His drawings are based on driving experience creating landscape with essentially lost information. Only minimal elements are chosen to recreate the pure structure of urban landscape. The graphic quality of his perspectives and graphite serve well to the recreation of pure structure of urban landscape and its synthetic beauty. Henrik Kam defines himself as an urban archeologist who has surveyed for the past five years the San Francisco Bayfront. Desolate and left at the mercy of the waterfront, these structures find a new identity with a feel of grandeur and peace. San Francisco artist, Kota Ezawa creates video however his work is closer related to painting than to narrative movie making. The 3 minute home video is a digital animation loop showing a suburban house during the course of a day. The colors and flatness of the image are seductive and the idea to stare at a perfect manicured house during the course of a day brings a sense of reflection and an innocent voyeuristic feeling. The "Nomadic Lines " of Shirley Shor strive to create a notion of liquid architecture. Projected into the space, the new environment is generated by code that creates an on going changeable grid, and unstable structure in motion. "Nomadic lines of Flight" is about construction of spaces. Constantly shifting the boundaries causes space to become temporal. Matthew Picton focuses on the environment at its source, water. Green and light blue mountains are delicately crafted to the topography surrounding several lakes in Oregon where the artist works and lives. His rubber or resin sculptures of lakes bring a sense of purity and fragility. Elizabeth Graham’s paintings on plexiglass or wood investigate the notion that a city is an ever-changing system: constantly moving, shifting and transforming. Her works explore how urban development is represented in a cartographic language while depicting a given landscape in a non-linear fashion. Los Angeles artist Lordy Rodriguez uses the languages of topography as well and map-making to create subjective and skewed "homemade" map-like drawings. Rodriguez plays with and dismantles many of the notions of intricate detail, by obsessively juxtaposing displaced geographic locations in his handmade maps." Also in the show, Katrin Sigurdardottir's small shipping crates, whose interior are miniature fictional land- and city scenes. The crates will be shipped as they are from her studio in New York to the gallery recording the transit across the country. Sigurdardottir uses models to emphasize the collision between different scales. Placed directly on the floor without transitional object (shelf, pedestal etc..), the viewer is forced to relate to the scale of the model rather than the other way around. Sigurdardottir works and lives in New York. Also on display in the cases, Amy Ress' newest photo constructions, and Doug Beube's torn maps. There currently are no reviews available
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