Project 4 presents
:
ART+SPACE SUMMER
EXHIBITION
Sharon
Louden
Jeanne
Quinn
Foon
Sham
Katy
Stone
June 5, 2010 - July 10,
2010
Reception, Saturday, June 5, 2010 - 6:30pm - 8:30
pm
Project 4 presents a group show linking the gallery’s exhibition
programming with its art consulting service, ART+Space. This ART+Space
Summer Exhibition features four artists creating sculptural works and
installations that emphasize the space they interact with and showcase the
artists’ ability to adapt their work to any site. Each working with
an adept and responsive hand to their materials, these artists create complexes
and structures where their lyrical, sculptural forms coalesce with the
environments they
inhabit.
In Katy Stone's work “Wavescape,” intricately cut pieces of
aluminum flow over the walls of the first floor gallery. Stone’s
forms are stretched and repeated, evoking man-made fabrication while expressing
a harmony found only in nature. Within the serenity of these forms the
merging of Stone’s influences, such as Chinese landscape paintings, modern
materials, and gestural repetitive marks, reveals itself. With a similarly
complex process and aesthetic, local artist Foon Sham's 10-foot tall, stacked
wood sculpture sits on the balcony behind this first floor gallery, swelling
from the well-ordered contemporary gallery into unfettered space. Sham is
primarily interested in investigating the materiality of wood during in
art-making process. In this new work, Sham borrows vocabularies from
architecture and line-drawing to create a work suggestive of naturally occurring
form, deliberate design and intuitive mark at
once.
Jeanne Quinn and Sharon Louden each create immersive sculptural installations
in separate niches of the gallery’s second level. Louden's
installation "Merge," made of hundreds of individual aluminum forms,
exemplifies the whimsical and gestural linearity characteristic of all of her
work. The physicality of "Merge" is a result of both
Louden’s animated arrangement of her aluminum elements as well as the
effect of light bouncing from their surfaces. In Quinn’s neighboring
installation, “Everything Is Not As It Seems,” the artist also
organically employs several visual forces at once, to create a complete
environment. In this work, porcelain, ornamental forms and electrified
bulbs hang in a crimson room, creating an expression of the artist’s
fascination with the concept of the Gesamtkunstwerk: the complete work of art.
Quinn seeks to create work that is “sensually encompassing,” and
uses domestic space as a site to do so in this particular work, referencing the
pervasiveness of the decorative arts in everyday life. The effect of an
interior space on an aesthetic experience and vice versa is the focus of this
work and of this exhibition.
For additional information please
contact:
Rebecca Jones,
director
DIRECTIONS AND INFORMATION
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