Gallery Archive
Micah Danges, Maximillian Lawrence, Joshua Rickards, Cast of One, Stephanie Dostson
EXHIBITION DATES: December 7 - 30, 2007
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, December 7 from 6-11pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12-6pm
GALLERY TALK: With Lorie Mertes, Chief Curator of the Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Sunday December 16 at 6pm
This month at Vox: NOT TO MISS SHOWS by members Micah Danges, Maximillian Lawrence and Joshua Rickards. Strange and charming cult figures, transcendence, and flashbacks, noise, light, optical illusions…how could you stay away? Rounding out our December awesome-ness will be the group show, Cast of One, featuring the work of Kara Hearn, Oriana Fox and Lauren Friedman, in the Video Lounge and Stephanie Dotson’s lovely installation in the back room. This is better than the office holiday party.
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Micah Danges
Things Happen at Night
Micah Danges explores possibilities of an endless evening through snapshot photographs, low-fi holograms and small handmade objects. He examines concerns of desolation, mysticism and psychedelia. These inspirations are based on both formal ideas and curiosity that define these nocturnal occurrences.
Maximillian Lawrence
The Darlington Pair
Maximillian Lawrence will be creating a device he refers to as a “relationship amplifier”, based on the electronic principle of a Darlington Pair. (A Darlington pair is a set of two transistors that amplify weak signals into stronger and sharper signals for both audio and microprocessing) In the best case, the gallery space will amplify the relationships between the people interacting with the musical instruments, culminating into a spectacularly blinding light and resonant bowel moving sound show, ending with a profound spiritual experience. In its worst case, it will flash LED’s and make fart noises.
Joshua Rickards
Hooks in the Water
This recent stuff/body of work is a look at beliefs and kinships that tie us together and weed others out. Rickards makes work that explores the series of connections and affinities people have that ultimately builds junctions and fosters communication. Mostly painting and drawing, the work uses a cartooning approach to deal with themes of belief systems, cult figures (religious or otherwise), relationships or just human nature in general. He makes paintings and such that try to look at commonalities that are used to make conduits for the communication of ideas.
Josh comes to Philly by way of NC by way of FL. and is both a Team Lump and Vox Populi member.
GUEST ARTIST
Stephanie Dotson
Drift-a-Weight
Drift-a-Weight deals with the dichotomy between stability and change. Dotson's visual strategy is rooted in a graphic, illustrative, and design-oriented style installed to challenge the static nature of the graphic image. For Drift-a Weight Dotson sources ornamental patterns and natural materials which knit the fabric of a familiar order, de and re-composes them to out of order. For this installation Dotson revealing a new environment which is simultaneously more aggressive, dark and beautiful than it's source.
IN THE VIDEO LOUNGE
Cast of One
Artists Kara Hearn, Oriana Fox, and Lauren Friedman forgo casts and crews by turning their video cameras on themselves. Michelle Kwan, Carrie Bradshaw, E.T. and Obi Wan Kenobi among others are used to “degrade and venerate the heroics of Hollywood movies” (Kara Hearn) and as a way to “explore my own perceived reflection in the images I see day to day” (Oriana Fox). These artists employ a somewhat self-conscious DIY aesthetic to examine what seems to be a love/hate relationship with both the medium and its message.
SCREENING
Adam Putnam
Screening is proud to present recent work by Adam Putnam. Expanding on a wide-ranging artistic practice that includes photography, sculpture, drawing, performance and installation, Putnam’s videos make substantial a nearly erotic tension between interior and exterior, depicted in his work as the corporeal and the architectural.
Presenting images of seemingly static, dark and entirely vacant rooms (all scale models constructed and filmed in the artist’s studio), Putnam invites viewers to enter and occupy the space portrayed, while simultaneously halting our gaze at the projection screen itself, where flickering light and digital grain (a byproduct of the camera used to record the constructed spaces) skitter across its surface, betraying the spatial illusion.
Adam Putnam was born in NYC in 1973, where he continues to live and work. Since earning a MFA from Yale in 2000, his work has been shown widely, at venues including PS1 Contemporary Art Center and Artists Space (NYC), Museum of Contemporary Art (San Diego), Serpentine Gallery (London) and The 2007 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. Putnam is represented by Taxter and Spengemann (NYC).
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