Duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 19 February 2010
MICHAEL EASTMAN & ROBERT MAZRIM
JIYONG LEE
February 19 — March 27, 2010
Join us for an opening reception Friday, February 19th from 5–8 PM to meet the artists
Gallery Hours Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 5
MICHAEL EASTMAN & ROBERT MAZRIM: Excavating the Emptied Globe
Duane Reed Gallery presents the latest work of acclaimed photographer Michael Eastman in collaboration with archeologist Robert Mazrim.
Michael Eastman and Robert Mazrim's collaborative exhibition Excavating The Emptied Globe, centers on the derelict Globe Drug Warehouse in Downtown St Louis. Documenting the dilapidated building like archeologists, Eastman and Mazrim capture the afterlife of the dust encrusted paperback books, palettes, clothing, food and office supplies abandoned by the building's final occupant. The character of the work on display evokes a surprising pathos for these modern fossils. Another facet of this afterlife quickly comes into focus under the camera's gaze: The signage for exits and entrances, tool rooms and discount aisles have been graphitized. An eerie post apocalyptic narrative of messages stemming from the instructions and activities of unknown employees is reinterpreted and commented upon through the years by equally anonymous visitors to the ghost world of the abandoned warehouse. These residual layers of decay and accretion, at times simultaneously peeling back and obscuring meaning, reveal the new dawn of a contemporary society already fading into the past tense.
JIYONG LEE
Jiyong Lee's Segmentation Series is inspired by his fascination with cell division. He works with glass that has simultaneous transparency and opacity: two qualities that metaphorically represent the knowledge and mysteries of biology. As the viewer moves around Lee's objects the play of light transforms the sculpture into startling new shapes that alter our perceptions and expectations. Mutating and transforming in sculptural form the way our bodies regenerate in biological form the deceptive simplicity and understated intricacy of Lee's compositions represent the contradictory relationship between clarity and complexity found within life. Using a lamination process similar in effect to mitosis (where cells segment and become new life.) Lee's uniquely refined translucent glass surfaces are mysterious sculptural forms, and suggest on a larger scale, the ambiguity of our temporal and material existence.
JIYONG LEE
February 19 — March 27, 2010
Join us for an opening reception Friday, February 19th from 5–8 PM to meet the artists
Gallery Hours Tuesday - Saturday 10 - 5
MICHAEL EASTMAN & ROBERT MAZRIM: Excavating the Emptied Globe
Duane Reed Gallery presents the latest work of acclaimed photographer Michael Eastman in collaboration with archeologist Robert Mazrim.
Michael Eastman and Robert Mazrim's collaborative exhibition Excavating The Emptied Globe, centers on the derelict Globe Drug Warehouse in Downtown St Louis. Documenting the dilapidated building like archeologists, Eastman and Mazrim capture the afterlife of the dust encrusted paperback books, palettes, clothing, food and office supplies abandoned by the building's final occupant. The character of the work on display evokes a surprising pathos for these modern fossils. Another facet of this afterlife quickly comes into focus under the camera's gaze: The signage for exits and entrances, tool rooms and discount aisles have been graphitized. An eerie post apocalyptic narrative of messages stemming from the instructions and activities of unknown employees is reinterpreted and commented upon through the years by equally anonymous visitors to the ghost world of the abandoned warehouse. These residual layers of decay and accretion, at times simultaneously peeling back and obscuring meaning, reveal the new dawn of a contemporary society already fading into the past tense.
JIYONG LEE
Jiyong Lee's Segmentation Series is inspired by his fascination with cell division. He works with glass that has simultaneous transparency and opacity: two qualities that metaphorically represent the knowledge and mysteries of biology. As the viewer moves around Lee's objects the play of light transforms the sculpture into startling new shapes that alter our perceptions and expectations. Mutating and transforming in sculptural form the way our bodies regenerate in biological form the deceptive simplicity and understated intricacy of Lee's compositions represent the contradictory relationship between clarity and complexity found within life. Using a lamination process similar in effect to mitosis (where cells segment and become new life.) Lee's uniquely refined translucent glass surfaces are mysterious sculptural forms, and suggest on a larger scale, the ambiguity of our temporal and material existence.
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