Organized By Katerina Lanfranco
183 Lorraine Street 3rd Floor, #33,Brooklyn (40.673263, -74.002369)
Rhombus Space presents Fine Lines Featuring artwork by Helen Dennis, Nils Folke Anderson, Jason Peters, and Ann Stewart. curated by Katerina Lanfranco October 18 – November 17, 2013 Reception: Friday October 18, 6-8 PM Hours: Saturdays and Sundays 1-5 PM and by appointment Fine Lines features work by four artists who use architectural references and architectonic designs in their art – using line as a visual building block is central to all of the work in this show. The exhibition includes painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, and sculpture; all of which demonstrates a shared interest and investigation of architecturally inspired relationships in art. We live in buildings, move through and around them during the course of our daily lives, but yet they tend to disappear in their ubiquity. Solid forms dissipate and become invisible in a way that we take for granted the air that we breathe. Whether it is the incomprehensible heaviness of the concrete and brick that dissects and divides our urban landscape, or the lateral surpassing of our visual field that makes the geometric carving-up of our space fade – the artists in Fine Lines focus our attention to architectural design and detail. They pare down architectural elements and represent them as unexpected, surprising realizations of the forms that exist in our lives, usually too familiar to be noticed, and yet here they are reduced and amplified. Helen Dennis draws with light by creating photographs and large-scale installations depicting urban architectural scenes using an alternative photographic process where layers of drawings act as the source negatives for her photographic images. Nils Folke Anderson’s sculptures, paintings, and installations encourage a direct, physical and subjective engagement with architectural forms such as in his series of Reciprocal Link works - where elements can be alternated so that each one has the exact same position as the next. Jason Peters uses common objects in unfamiliar ways. Through repetition and at a scale that creates an interaction with their environment, these objects shift from having a utilitarian function to a conceptual one, and thereby become surprising and unpredictable. Ann Stewart is interested in forms that allude to living systems, natural phenomena, and architectural structures. This is expressed in a labor intensive, process-based approach to making work that result from continual drawing and erasing of an image until a micro-macro cosmology of forms emerges through mapping and patterning. These artists approach space in unique ways, all of them referencing architectural form with an emphasis on lines. Fine Lines is an art show where simplified formal elements and visual information become visual poetics moving between familiar form and elegant abstraction. Fine Lines explores how these artists share a common sensibility of defined forms and articulated geometry in their work, using line as a visual element that is unanimously refined and elegant. <><><><><><><><><><><> <> <> <> For more information please contact Katerina Lanfranco at Rhombus Space. [email protected]