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Email PageIncandescent
June 26, 2008- August 15, 2008
Reception: June 26, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Joergen Geerds, Richard Roth, Carol Salmanson
532 Gallery
532 W 25th StAll three of these artists deal with architecture and its relationship to anthropomorphism.he buildings may not look like human beings, but they mimic our consciousness in thatthey project light from within, or have some innate sensory rapport with the immediatenatural environment.
Joergen Geerds is an urban photographer, but there is nothing gritty or tough about these images,which portray the city as if it were the very horizon itself, stretching into infinity with every streetlightor desk lamp projecting like a star in the firmament of near-heaven, and all the light combining to fillthe liminal edges of every building, so that despite a night shot there are no shadows.Though he uses the hyperbolic style of a 360-degree shot, Geerds has chosen such a timelessand immutable subject that his perspective never seems more important than its theme.
Richard Roth’s sculpture has its roots in the Constructivist forms of naum Gabo or El Lizzitsky,but it also resembles a human spine or the waving sails of a tall ship. Its central plinth throbswith white light that then travels along the glass extensions creating a very interior illuminationwhich nonetheless inhabits a very external, open, and urban space like that within business districtsin which glass canyons ironically reflect a socially demarcated territory of corporate agendas.
Carol Salmanson also creates structurally sublime forms which are resplendent in the depictionof incandescent projections, slight intimations of an interior reality, a brooding and minimalpresence that links the LED lights on household appliances to the neon signs of a once seedyand now family friendly Times Square. Out of the darkness, a necessarily voluble depth,her lights are signals leading us into esthetic symmetry.
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