Gallery Archive
Stefan Abrams, Leah Bailis, Kara Crombie, David Bowen, Pablo Colapinto
EXHIBITION DATES: December 4, 2009 - January 3, 2010
OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, December 4 from 6 - 11pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6pm
GALLERY TALK: With Lucy Gallun, Whitney Lauder Curatorial Fellow, ICA Philadelphia, January 3 at 3pm
Vox Populi is pleased to announce December's exhibitions. Featured in the galleries are Stefan Abrams, Leah Bailis, Kara Crombie, and David Bowen. Pablo Colapinto shows work in the Video Lounge, and Screening exhibits Lynne Marsh's Ballroom.
Stefan Abrams, It's a Wonderful Life
It's a Wonderful Life continues a recent a trend in Abrams' work towards notions and manifestations of display. The photographs, in keeping with the inescapable holiday season, examine front yard Christmas decorations in all their glory and despair. Stefan Abrams is a 2009 Pennsylvania Council of the Arts Fellow.
Leah Bailis, Demo
Leah Bailis imagines a hole cut in the floor of the gallery and a possible outcome of that event.
Kara Crombie, Aloof Hills (Episode 1: Family Meeting)
Sixteen-year-old Laurie Van der Screwd has a terrible secret, and there are few on the Aloof Hills Plantation who can help her. Father has left for the war, and Mother has taken this as a cue to embark on a self-absorbed hedonistic bender. Julian, who is responsible for his sister's predicament, welcomes her problem as an entertaining diversion from the dull plantation scene. And Buttons is just mentally incapable of being helpful. Laurie may have no choice but to flee the place she has never left.
David Bowen, if/then
if/then refers to an argument in the basic computer language. This argument states that if an input is activated then a response will occur via an output. In the case of this installation, houseflies activate the sensors with their subtle movements and in turn spotlights are illuminated and projected into the space. In this way the flies' subtle movements are dramatically amplified.
VIDEO LOUNGE
Pablo Colapinto, Proof Against The Prying
Pursuit Of Flux Across Boundaries. Leaves Entering A Contract. Multiply Environmental Inverses. The Dual Meet. The Laying On Of Hands. Takes A Trip To The Border. Some Measurement and Remeasurement. Dedifferentiation and Degeneracy. A Pathology of Biological Considerations Issues Forth from Subspace. Tissue Froth. Avoids Relying On Complexity Science. Rolling Complexes, Duplexes, Suplexes and Doubles. The Restoration and Reduction of 8 Tecate Cans. Enough Information To Seamlessly Transfer Power Over Via Geomantic Analysis. R&R and D&D and 2 Doctors. Spicy Tomatoes.
In 2005 Pablo received a Pew Fellowship in Media Arts, and was a resident writer at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida. His animated work has been showcased at BAM, the New York Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, the Japan Society and at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia.
AT SCREENING
Lynne Marsh, Ballroom
Ballroom presents a woman, athletic and glamorous, suspended upside down in the center of a dance hall, her glittering sequined costume reflecting light, like a mirror ball, onto the backdrop of a sumptuous interior. As she spins around with increasing speed, sending the reflections whirling, the soundtrack reaches a crescendo. The theatrical spectacle similar to a magician-illusionist or circus-aerial act leaves the audience wondering if they are witness to an illusion or a real event. In Ballroom, Marsh makes use of the aesthetics of game spaces and 3D animation to fuse or blend the figure with object and architectural space. The video work creates a more complex phenomenal space where a filmed location appears as simulation and/or an imaginary space is created from reconfiguring the 'real' world.
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