Partial Relation is a group exhibition of new media, photography, sculpture and collage works on paper that engage with the concept of appropriation and regeneration. The artists in this exhibition are working to reconfigure existing materials into concepts that are both malleable and deliberate.
Joe Grimm’s Transitions is a pseudo-structuralist, camera-less amalgam of manipulated Final Cut Pro Software transition screens, displayed on a tower of stacked monitors. For Partial Relation, Grimm created an object that combines the artist’s performative and installation work. The result is a dynamic rhythmic pattern of light and sound.
In his collage practice, Travis Wyche combines material from items both personal and discarded; to develop intricate and complex works on paper. A constant theme within Wyche’s oeuvre is an interest in regenerative systems. The collage series marks a transitive stage within the artist’s work, and offers a glimpse into the process that has led him to explore the dematerialization of the art object, re-materialized into the viewer’s experience.
The built environments that Daniel Lavitt creates are reflexive of memories and happenings both personal and universal. Through his work Daniel continually examines and reinvents his relationship to the domestic and social environment. For Partial Relation Lavitt has created a layered, sculptural object that is comprised of discarded remnants of another person’s life; which serve as a conduit through which the artist explores his own discarded past.
Trevor Messersmith’s Covered series is a photographic body of work in which the artist appropriates the formal content of original self-portraits created by famous photographers, and casts himself as object of the artist’s gaze. The resultant imagery is performative and represents the artist’s influences, art history, and self-perception.
Partial Relation, curated by Allison Glenn, is on view at Residence Gallery from August 23 through September 17, 2011. The opening reception will take place Saturday, August 27, 2011 from 6:00-10:00 p.m.
Residence Gallery is located at 2148 E. 4th St. in Long Beach, CA 90814
