Gallery Archive
Stefan Abrams, Charles Hobbs, Roxana Perez-Mendez, Dana Levy, Joseph Hu & Mauro Zamora
EXHIBITION DATES: May 1 - 31, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, May 1 from 6 - 11pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday, 12 - 6pm
GALLERY TALK: Sunday, May 31 at 3pm
Vox Populi is pleased to announce May's exhibitions. Featured in the galleries are Vox artists Stefan Abrams, Charles Hobbs, and Roxana Perez-Mendez. The Video Lounge features Dana Levy, and our final alumni exhibition features the work of Joseph Hu and Mauro Zamora.
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Stefan Abrams
Doppelgangers
Stefan Abrams' exhibition Doppelgangers investigates the strange phenomena of the double.
Charles Hobbs
Secret Passage
Secret Passage by Charles Hobbs is a new interactive installation that captivates the viewer literally. Upon entrance, a wooden sculpture of a smashed gate bisects the space, twisted and distorted. Ink drawings hang on the wall, and music from a theremin fades in and out. As unsuspecting visitors pass through the gallery, a gate suspended from above moves across the entrance, trapping them within the space.
Roxana Perez-Mendez
Todo Tiene Su Final
Puerto Rican multi-media/performance artist, Roxana Perez-Mendez presents a new installation, Todo Tiene Su Final. Inspired by the Hector Lavoe's classic salsa hit of the same name, Todo Tiene Su Final installation refers to the temporality in life when engaged in the eternal struggle for hope and certainty of the immigrant experience, reminds one of the end to the search for the American Dream.
Vox Alumni:
Joseph Hu and Mauro Zamora
Forest Reverie
Taken from the title of a poem by Edgar Allen Poe, Mauro Zamora and Joseph Hu present individual works that make reference to Poe's poem, The Forest Reverie.
Returning to Vox Populi for the 8th time, Joseph Hu presents new sculptural works constructed of paper and cardboard. Littered throughout the gallery floor, thousands of hand cut and water-colored leaves mingle with cardboard branches and other elements found on the forest floor. Inspired by recent wanderings in woods both near and far, the piece recalls leisurely walks and a sense of awe and wonderment brought about by our connection with nature.
Mauro Zamora will exhibit a new installation that melds a video projection with his signature wall painting. The piece centers on an idea of negation and the inability to get past blockades, be they physical, psychological or political. In the case of "restricted" Zamora holds nature at a longing distance, as groups of swaying trees remain ensconced behind a painted chain link fence. Here as in other recent works, Zamora asks questions about the line a fence draws on the land -- is the fence there to keep us out (away from nature) or (to keep us in the situation we exist now) to keep us in.
IN THE VIDEO LOUNGE
Curated by Anita Allyn
Dana Levy
Re:collecting
Using a lush visual approach, two recent videos by Israeli artist Dana Levy, investigate memory, collecting and collections and the complexities of living with the past. The Museum, 2008, is a six minute, one shot pan through a composited museum space using images from different classical and natural history Italian museums. Silent Among Us, 2008, uses the backdrop of a natural history museum to contrast the ideas about the living and the dead coexisting.
Read the full press release here.
Also on view at SCREENING is Mungo Thomson's Silent Film of a Tree Falling in the Forest, 2005-6.
Visit the Screening website for more information.
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