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Indepth Arts News:
"Oni Exhibitions"
2000-01-15 until 2000-02-20
futuremaybe
Boston, MA,
USA United States of America
The exhibition will feature work by Scott
Alberg, Bradley Rubenstein, Andrea Champlin, Meg
Rotzel, Justin Leiberman, Kitty Reals, and Calvin
Seibert. futuremaybe will be curator Zach
Feuerís follow up to The Apartment Show
(http://hugo.smfa.edu/~zfeuer). The show will
explore 7 post-adolescent fantasies for the
future. The artistís predictions deal with outer
space, digital landscapes and science gone array.
Andrea Champlinís paintings of an expanding
digital landscape hint at expressiveness being
taken over by binary code; but are saved by the
visibility of the artistís mark in her mock
digital exploration of painting. Bradley
Rubensteinís subtle paintings at first appear to
be delicate figure drawings, but at second glance
reveal themselves as the products of a scientific
disaster. His gentle technique evokes sympathy
rather then fear in his monsters.
Scott Alberg, an MFA candidate at The Museum
School, will be making his debut in futuremaybe
with plastine sculptures of the Space Shuttle
Challengerís explosion. His objects refer to an
adolescent obsession with expositions and outer
space while commenting on one of the most
traumatic childhood events in the 1980 s. Meg
Rotzel departs from Scott Alberg's childhood
fascination with outer space by using small cast
astronaut toys. She asks the viewer to step into
the pose of the toy astronaut and perform the
slippage between the projected future and the
real of the present.
Video artist Justin Lieberman s piece Bath of
the Future humorously explores the pleasures
found in bathing in Styrofoam while mocking the
absurd self pleasures of cyber romantic life.
Kitty Reals also utilizes video in his
installation Platform and creates a space for
takeoff that is reminiscent of an MTV dance
floor. Instead of seeing a countdown while
standing on his Platform , the viewer is
confronted with meaningless animated messages
with phrases like stay tune or next flashing
across the screen. Once taken off the Platform,
the viewer is led over to Calvin Seibertís small
gouaches. Calvin's work performs simultaneously
as palm sized machines and massive space stations
while playing slightly pathetic optical tricks on
the viewer. Calvin s sleek yet awkward
capsule-like forms leave the viewer disoriented
while looking as his depiction of a possible
escape route.
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