FEBRUARY 3-26, 2012
Carl James Ferrero, Erik Geschke, Ronald Lambert, Lauren Rice & Brian Barr
EXHIBITION DATES: February 3-26, 2012
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, February 3 from 6 - 11 pm
GALLERY TALK: Saturday, February 4 from 12 - 2 pm with Ron Lambert and Erik Geschke
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6 pm
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The final installment of Vox Populi's succesful Winter 2011-12 program of curated guest artist exhibitions features sculpture, painting, collage, and mixed media work by artists exploring our contemporary condition.
In his exhibition The Perfect Disaster, Carl Ferrero breaks down the familiar, "rebuilding it into what I would like it to be," in his idiosyncratic paintings, watercolors, and sculptures. Blurring the line between subject and object, his works interact with each other in installations, creating a new narrative - "like a band covering a song" - out of the barely noticed aspects of everyday life.
Drawing his concepts from disparate source material such as art history, political propaganda, and popular culture, Erik Geschke also takes the seemingly familiar as a starting point for satire, confronting viewers so that they reassess their perspective on the both the artwork and on life itself. His sculptural work Untitled (Social Engineering), 2011, depicts Buckminster Fuller's modernist, geodesic dome constructed from 65 cast plastic human femurs, a comment on the fine line between utopia and dystopia.
Working with sculpture, Ron Lambert explores a weighty, historical artistic occupation - the sublime - through direct experience, allowing the viewer to see the construction and feel the sensation of each sculptural element. In Anywhere Sometime, he intends to provide an opportunity to slow down and step out of the fast pace of daily life: "It is difficult to make art about flux, to make objects that ask the audience to remain still in a culture which constantly threatens to pass them by."
Finally, Brian Barr & Lauren Rice present the collaborative exhibition Totems, which explores contemporary culture from the vantage point of the future, focusing on ideas, objects, and images that have lost their significance. Collage, image transfers, painting and installed sculpture will figure a deteriorating post-apocalyptic landscape, providing space to consider the shifting social constructs of identity.
AT FOURTH WALL
Irina Arnaut
W is for
[Curated by Jasmin Tsou]
W is for explores the overwrought but unconsummated fantasies inhabited by four women in unstable stasis. Facing dangers that are as yet undetermined, that may be real or psychological, they survive by alternately approaching and avoiding their own inner worlds: they can’t resist what draws them in, but they can’t bring themselves to face it. Like the asymptote of a hyperbola, it seems, they will get closer and closer without ever touching bottom. But the lens of fantasy, at first taken up as a survival strategy, inevitably becomes their new reality, leading to the breakthrough breakdown.
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[Image above: Carl Ferrero]
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