Gallery Archive
Micah Danges, Roxana Pérez-Méndez, Curated by Piper Marshall, Emily O'Keefe, Matt Osborn
EXHIBITION DATES: February 5 - 28, 2010OPENING RECEPTION: Friday, February 5 from 6 - 11pm
GALLERY HOURS: Wednesday - Sunday 12 - 6pm
GALLERY TALK: With Luis Gispert, artist, Sunday, February 28 at 3pm
Vox Populi is pleased to announce February's exhibitions. Featured in the galleries are Vox members Micah Danges and Roxana Pérez-Méndez. A group show Steven Baldi, Lucas Knipscher and Piper Marshall is also on view. Emily O'Keefe & Matthew Osborn show work in the Video Lounge, and Screening continues to exhibit Valérie Mréjen's Ils Respirents.
Micah Danges, Wake Up Sharp
Through photographs and sculpture, Micah Danges examines balance and measurement in spaces and environments, natural and man-made. A blurring of material and place portrays a site where the remembered meets the imagined.
Roxana Pérez-Méndez, Siempre Hace Frio Puerto Rican multi-media/performance artist Roxana Pérez-Méndez presents a new installation, Siempre Hace Frio. Having always been a nation of immigrants, the United States was the portal to the "American Dream," a place where anyone can succeed with enough hard work. Siempre Hace Frio looks into the emotional effects of migration on its women, not only those born abroad but also those born in the United States, and speaks to their strength, fire and passion to survive.
Steven Baldi, Lucas Knipscher and Piper Marshall departs from a common interest in complicating the efficacy of image campaigns. Steven Baldi culls together tropes of modernity, which are re-organized to explore the role of media (film, paintings, photography) in relationship to various stages of meaning. Lucas Knipscher makes useful pre-existing structures of imaging: graphic patterns, publicity images, mechanical and traditional photographic processes to antagonistically examine the facets of symbol management. Piper Marshall writes about the related modes of image production within Baldi and Knipscher's respective works.
VIDEO LOUNGE
Emily O'Keefe & Matthew Osborn
Curated by Kara Crombie
Vox Populi Video Lounge presents artists Emily O'Keefe and Matthew Osborn, dark humorists working with distinct animation techniques. In Gargantua Dolls, O'Keefe uses stop motion techniques, live action and photography to create a fantastic urban environment whose inhabitants power over the landscape. Osborn's Sad But True is a lo-fi slide show of semi-autobiographical vignettes, an animated sketchbook, part David Shrigley, part Jack London.
SCREENING
Valérie Mréjen, Ils Respirents
Ils Respirent (They Breathe) by French artist, writer and filmmaker Valérie Mréjen, employs elements of autobiography and a refined cinematic aesthetic. Mréjen continues her exploration of portraiture and human relationships. Eight characters are pictured individually, almost motionless, while their thoughts play out as a voice over, relating off-screen narratives that explore emotional distress through the most quotidian affairs. The work could be considered a formal inversion of popular cinema (where viewers more typically follow action and narrative while being left to conjecture a character’s thoughts and emotions) but retains a heightened sense of drama through production devices such as lighting, scripting, editing/pacing and deadpan performance, through which the characters convey a sense of anxiety, restlessness and dark humor.
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