Los Caminos: Saturday, 31 March 2012
LOS CAMINOS and PLUG PROJECTS are proud to present Take Shelter
curated by Plug Projects
featuring Ah-ram Park, Yoonmi Nam, Erika Lynne Hanson, and Leo Esquivel
March 31 - April 21, 2012
Opening reception: Saturday, March 31st, 7pm - 10pm
Los Caminos is open by appointment after the opening
Los Caminos, in conjunction with Plug Projects, presents TAKE SHELTER, an exhibition featuring Ah-ram Park, Yoonmi Nam, Erika Lynne Hanson, and Leo Esquivel, whose practices navigate the domestic sphere through photography, sculpture, printmaking, textiles, and installation. TAKE SHELTER is curated by Plug Projects as a response to the location and environment of the Los Caminos apartment gallery as both an exhibition site and a living space. The selected works investigate both the physical and intangible structures that permeate our daily lives. Strategies of repetition offer moments of introspection in the midst of everyday objects, banal palettes, and familiar materials that echo the discrete patterns found in the daily routine. The work on display highlights the tension between the comforts and discomforts found in the home.
Ah-ram Park’s color photographs frame anonymous architectural spaces that are void of human presence from both interior and exterior perspectives. Park’s formal compositions present the viewer with moments of quiet contemplation that are somber and hopeful. They consider remarkable moments found in the common, overlooked background.
Similar observations of our surrounding architecture also influence the work of Yoonmi Nam. The toile wallpaper, created specifically for this exhibition, synthesizes traditional Chinese drawing approaches with depictions of Midwestern dwellings in various states of creation and collapse. The wallpapering in itself acts as a reminder of domestic décor as a demonstration of control over our environment, and a desire to enable change over one’s immediate surroundings.
In contrast, Erica Lynne Hanson’s work relies on the developed abstract and reductive visual language embodied in a set of materials. Hanson’s work presents scenarios where a precarious balance is achieved through the interdependent arrangement of hand-dyed textile weavings, succulent plants, fragrant cedar planks and ice. The instability of the artificial structures both mirrors the landscape and invites the viewer to contemplate the fluctuating nature of our environment.
The sculptures of Leo Esquivel are facsimiles of pillows and mattresses created from common building materials such as sheetrock mud, primer, and construction foam. Trompe l’oeil stains act as the residual evidence left by absent, anonymous bodies. The work, Bottom Stair, embodies a paradox, alluding to comfort and anxiety at the same time.
curated by Plug Projects
featuring Ah-ram Park, Yoonmi Nam, Erika Lynne Hanson, and Leo Esquivel
March 31 - April 21, 2012
Opening reception: Saturday, March 31st, 7pm - 10pm
Los Caminos is open by appointment after the opening
Los Caminos, in conjunction with Plug Projects, presents TAKE SHELTER, an exhibition featuring Ah-ram Park, Yoonmi Nam, Erika Lynne Hanson, and Leo Esquivel, whose practices navigate the domestic sphere through photography, sculpture, printmaking, textiles, and installation. TAKE SHELTER is curated by Plug Projects as a response to the location and environment of the Los Caminos apartment gallery as both an exhibition site and a living space. The selected works investigate both the physical and intangible structures that permeate our daily lives. Strategies of repetition offer moments of introspection in the midst of everyday objects, banal palettes, and familiar materials that echo the discrete patterns found in the daily routine. The work on display highlights the tension between the comforts and discomforts found in the home.
Ah-ram Park’s color photographs frame anonymous architectural spaces that are void of human presence from both interior and exterior perspectives. Park’s formal compositions present the viewer with moments of quiet contemplation that are somber and hopeful. They consider remarkable moments found in the common, overlooked background.
Similar observations of our surrounding architecture also influence the work of Yoonmi Nam. The toile wallpaper, created specifically for this exhibition, synthesizes traditional Chinese drawing approaches with depictions of Midwestern dwellings in various states of creation and collapse. The wallpapering in itself acts as a reminder of domestic décor as a demonstration of control over our environment, and a desire to enable change over one’s immediate surroundings.
In contrast, Erica Lynne Hanson’s work relies on the developed abstract and reductive visual language embodied in a set of materials. Hanson’s work presents scenarios where a precarious balance is achieved through the interdependent arrangement of hand-dyed textile weavings, succulent plants, fragrant cedar planks and ice. The instability of the artificial structures both mirrors the landscape and invites the viewer to contemplate the fluctuating nature of our environment.
The sculptures of Leo Esquivel are facsimiles of pillows and mattresses created from common building materials such as sheetrock mud, primer, and construction foam. Trompe l’oeil stains act as the residual evidence left by absent, anonymous bodies. The work, Bottom Stair, embodies a paradox, alluding to comfort and anxiety at the same time.
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