ACFNY RECOMMENDS | EXHIBITION EDIFICE AMISS: CONSTRUCTING NEW PERSPECTIVES MONDAY JAN 30 - SATURDAY MAR 03 |
The artists and designers in Edifice Amiss: Constructing New Perspectives build sculptures and site-specific installations that challenge us to see our constructed world anew. Reinventing the ways in which we experience space, Lead Pencil Studio, David Henderson, and Austrian artist Esther Stocker recontextualize architecture by manipulating scale, appropriating familiar motifs, or redefining myriad spatial relationships. Our relationship to buildings is often taken for granted, but the works in this exhibition – whether an abstracted abbey ceiling tilted on its side or an elevated evocation of a city street – reveal overlooked and sometimes hidden features of the architectural spaces in which we live and work.
This exhibition was curated by Lisa Tung, Director of Curatorial Programs at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
The gallery is located in the South building, just off Huntington Avenue.
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Esther Stocker, born 1974 in the mainly German-speaking province of South Tyrol, Italy, works with paintings, murals, and installations. She applies and deconstructs geometric shapes and grid structures both on canvas and into space, onto the floors, ceilings, and walls of gallery spaces, creating immersive installations which, by manipulating spatial perception, seem to explode into the third dimension, leaving the viewers disoriented in their own illusions. By calling attention to the fact that “we know nothing about space,” she questions Euclidian geometry and the assumption of space as a given entity, seen from a very specific point of view. For the 2011 exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum, Fünf Räume, Stocker created two new, site-specific installations with strong connections to her established practice, yet integrated into the architecture of the exhibition space. The pieces were displayed in the Lobby of the ACFNY and on the Upper Mezzanine of the gallery. Stocker studied at the Pasadena Art Center College of Design and currently lives and works in Vienna.
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Stephen D. Paine Gallery
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
621 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
(617) 879-7000
