SPACE JAM
November 13 - December 12, 2009; Tuesday - Saturday: 12 - 5pm
Opening reception: Friday, November 13, 2009: 6 - 10pm
Curated by Aimee Lusty
Union Gallery is pleased to present “Space Jam,” a group exhibition themed on 2-dimensional
works that venture into 3-dimensional space, where the imagined world becomes the audiences’
reality. Each artist establishes an explorative environment using traditionally flat and
dimensionless media. “Space Jam” is an orchestrated jamming of handcrafted microcosms into
one all-encompassing space.
The exhibition showcases artwork by: Yo Fukui, Yasemin Kackar- Demirel, Dina
Kelberman, Andrea Loefke, Scott Meyers, Devin Powers, Alan Resnick and Ryan
Syrell.
These artists explore what happens when drawings, paintings, prints, and collage begin to break
away from the walls and become installations. The general restrictions of framing works and
limiting them to wall-space inhibits the possibilities these mediums are capable of. These
handcrafted worlds encourage individual experiences and interpretations. All pieces are site-specific
installations that challenge the artists’ conventions of two-dimensional work, spanning from
minimalist drawing to audience interactive pieces. The installations simulate the sensation of
stepping into a drawing, allowing viewers to experience the dimensionality that artists strive to
imitate in physically flat works.
(Above Installation by Andrea Loefke, “Happily I Await the End,” 2009.)
(Yasemin Kackar- Demirel, “Unnatural Habitat,” 2009)
(Scott Meyers, “Monolith II,” 2009)
(Devin Powers, “What Shatters Gathers and what Gathers Blows Apart,” 2009)
(Dina Kelberman, “Things Who,” 2009)
(Alan Resnick, “DVD Featurette,” 2009)
