January 14th, 2009
Owen’s work
Murphy’s photographic series captures the essence of light and water where Bayou St. John meets lake Ponchatrain. He captures the geometry of the overhead bridges, some flowing in a perfectly straight continuum while others shift shades from light to dark, as they hit the water. These black and white photographs are intense studies in geometry and light, with stark contrasts in value. They are peaceful, serene in their formal commentary on form, in their recognition that beauty can emerge from man’s interventions in the natural world.
James W. Goedert
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January 14th, 2009
José’s work
In a departure from his customary practice as a painter, Jose Maria Cundin recontextualizes the obelisk in this series of sculptures. Each piece has a touch of humor within a political and social statement. Structures that are most often used to convey status and position have been altered in various ways to transform their purpose. Cundin’s “Mobile Obelisk”, for example, has been fashioned with wheels, so as to make this permanent object a beacon that can be passed from power to power, and place to place, denying all conventional wisdom about the permanency of monolithic statuary. The “Unstable Obelisk” sits upon a pedestal with a half-moon shaped base. This brightly colored sculpture functions as a pendulum or a metronome, skewing its conventional meanings to their fullest extent. Each obelisk has a unique visual element added to spur reflection and undercut convention for the attentive viewer.
James W. Goedert.
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January 14th, 2009
David’s work
Sullivan’s “Sunset Refinery” meets its viewers in a room filled with sound and video wrapped within a space floor-to-ceiling with grocery bags. The intriguing drone that populates the room with sounds resembling crickets and barges falls in line with the screen as orb after orb transforms into calligraphic line. There is a quality of space that is seldom captured as it is in this animation. A cosmic backdrop allows willowy lines to wrap within and around themselves in a kaleidoscope of colors, playing amongst the continuously expanding and contracting oil-like spheres. This mysterious projection loop is one that cannot easily be captured in words. It must be viewed whole and absorbed as an experience.
James W. Goedert
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January 14th, 2009
Bradshaw’s “Ponchatrain Hurricane Series” installs rustic exploded aluminum, mangled beyond utility, upon the gallery wall. These remnants of staple building materials appear to be fleeing from their surfaces half way between decay and repair. Each of the pieces has arrived in a unique state. Within the fabric-like folds are harbored different levels of oxidation, bleeding out into areas of virgin metal. These objects stand alone and together as depictions of decay that lead away from the possibility of return to the necessity of change.
James W. Goedert
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