Gallery Archive
Gabriel Boyce, Dustin Sparks, vydavy sindikat, Joseph Hu & Mauro Zamora, Michael Paul Britto
EXHIBITION DATES: June 5 - 28, 2009
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, June 5 from 6 - 11pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6pm
GALLERY TALK: Sunday, June 28 at 3pm
Vox Populi is pleased to announce June's exhibitions. Featured in the galleries are Vox artists Gabriel Boyce and Dustin Sparks and artist collective vydavy sindikat. The Video Lounge features Michael Paul Britto, and our final alumni exhibition is a two-person show featuring the work of Joseph Hu and Mauro Zamora.
Gabriel Boyce
Zeus
In his fifth show at Vox, Gabriel Boyce presents an incongruous combination of informal works that bring us into his playful world of iconography, nature and sex. Questioning the pervasiveness of "public vs. private" in contemporary practices, Boyce's work consistently reassures us that there is humor to be found in all things human.
Dustin Sparks
No. 3, Configuration Space: Static Equilibria of a First-Class Lever from a 3-Dimensional Lazy-Susan Subspace
Dustin Sparks is a sculptor based in Philadelphia. His work deals with notions of an overlooked ephemeral existence. He creates micro-social situations each with a unique climate and environment for the viewer to navigate, a non-logical isolated situation with just enough familiarity for the viewer to make sense and develop uninstructed individual purpose.
vydavy sindikat
Commuter's Dreams
Visitors are invited to experience Commuter's Dreams - an installation, documenting a series of performances, which took place in NY public transit system. The focus of each performance is a body of a Commuter, a person who uses public transportation as an everyday practice. Commuter's Dreams are neither nightmares nor good dreams, but rather transformation of mundane reality where new questions are being asked.
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
Michael Paul Britto
Daughters
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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