Duane Reed Gallery: Friday, 24 October 2014
Opening October 24th through November 29th
Jiyong LeeNew Work
Orange Purple Cuboid Segmentation
Drosophila Embryo Segmentation
Duane Reed Gallery presents the work of glass artist Jiyong Lee. Exhibition opens Friday, October 24th with a reception that evening 5 -8pm. The exhibition will run through November 29th.
Lee' 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 clarity and mysteries of biology. Similar to the way cells start to segment and become a life, the uniquely refined translucent laminated glass surface suggest the mysterious qualities of cells, and on a larger scale, the ambiguity of our temporal existence. As the viewer moves around Lee's objects the play of light transforms the sculpture into startling new forms which play on our perceptions and our expectations. The deceptive simplicity and understated intricacy of Lee's compositions represent the contradictory relationship between clarity and complexity found within life.
Andrew Brandmeyer
Holiday Postcard Stares
Duane Reed Gallery presents the work of Andrew Brandmeyer. In his first major solo exhibition, Brandmeyer displays his prodigious approach to the St. Louis urban landscape.
Recontextualizing traditional landscape and portraiture, Brandmeyer is aggressively sensitive to the character of his subjects, whether they be portraits of his friends or abandoned and degrading cityscapes. In his cityscapes, Brandmeyer embraces the history of St. Louis while conveying the condition of a once-grand city in decline. The surfaces of Brandmeyer's paintings reflect the quality of the city's surfaces from decades of peeling paint and fliers, graffiti, faded lettering, and erosion. The paintings' formal harmonies, and the seductive, tactile quality of the surfaces themselves, reinforce a message that beauty is defined by a buildup of experience and, ultimately, by survival (Julia Clift, Huffington Post). His portraits carry through the same surfaced textures, as if each person's presence is composed of peeling, built-up, and dissipating qualities.
Jiyong LeeNew Work
Orange Purple Cuboid Segmentation
Drosophila Embryo Segmentation
Duane Reed Gallery presents the work of glass artist Jiyong Lee. Exhibition opens Friday, October 24th with a reception that evening 5 -8pm. The exhibition will run through November 29th.
Lee' 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 clarity and mysteries of biology. Similar to the way cells start to segment and become a life, the uniquely refined translucent laminated glass surface suggest the mysterious qualities of cells, and on a larger scale, the ambiguity of our temporal existence. As the viewer moves around Lee's objects the play of light transforms the sculpture into startling new forms which play on our perceptions and our expectations. The deceptive simplicity and understated intricacy of Lee's compositions represent the contradictory relationship between clarity and complexity found within life.
Andrew Brandmeyer
Holiday Postcard Stares
Duane Reed Gallery presents the work of Andrew Brandmeyer. In his first major solo exhibition, Brandmeyer displays his prodigious approach to the St. Louis urban landscape.
Recontextualizing traditional landscape and portraiture, Brandmeyer is aggressively sensitive to the character of his subjects, whether they be portraits of his friends or abandoned and degrading cityscapes. In his cityscapes, Brandmeyer embraces the history of St. Louis while conveying the condition of a once-grand city in decline. The surfaces of Brandmeyer's paintings reflect the quality of the city's surfaces from decades of peeling paint and fliers, graffiti, faded lettering, and erosion. The paintings' formal harmonies, and the seductive, tactile quality of the surfaces themselves, reinforce a message that beauty is defined by a buildup of experience and, ultimately, by survival (Julia Clift, Huffington Post). His portraits carry through the same surfaced textures, as if each person's presence is composed of peeling, built-up, and dissipating qualities.
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