Past Exhibitions/Projects/Events

2006

September 29-October 14, 2006, Alexa Kreissl and Daniel Kerber: Blast

Alexa Kreissl & Daniel Kerber: Blast
September 29 - October 14, 2006
Opening Reception: Thursday, September 28, 7-9pm

Triangle Arts Association is pleased to announce Blast, a site-specific sculpture by Alexa Kreissl and Daniel Kerber. Berlin-based collaborators Kreissl and Kerber respond to the architectural systems and elements of urbanization (construction sites, skyscrapers, bridges, billboards, fences, street traffic) with abstracted sculptures, wall drawings and installations. Blast is a site-specific sculpture built by the artists as a farewell to New York City after a one-year residence as part of the Triangle International Residency Program. The piece, constructed largely out of salvaged building materials, reinvents them by capturing the energy of an explosive building demolition project or the destructive forces of an earthquake. Using a computer 3D modeling program, the artists push the cheap materials to their limits, piecing together soaring jagged panels at impossible angles. The exterior structure displays the rough and patchy construction holding the entire form together while the interior presents smooth monochromatic surfaces. This dichotomy between interior and exterior, rough versus polished is a continuing interest for Kreissl and Kerber in their observations of architecture, cities and in their studies of the energy and effects of natural and man-made disasters.

Alexa Kreissl and Daniel Kerber have been working together since 1992. Their work was recently shown in Talking Cities Ð The Micropolitics of Urban Space, a group exhibition curated by Francesca Ferguson and urban drift productions Ltd., at ENTRY2006 Ð Perspectives and Visions in Design, Zeche Zollverein, Essen, Germany. The studio is sponsored by the Berlin Senate, a partnership begun in 2005.

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2005

October 7-29th, 2005, Flavor Intensive: 5 Sculptors
October 24-26th, 2005, The 8
October 20-29th, 2005, Vermont Studio Center/Triangle Artists NYC Tour

Flavor Intensive: 5 Sculptors
Matt Blackwell
Linda Ganjian
Peter Lundberg
Arthur Mednick
Arthur Simms

Triangle Arts is proud to present Flavor Intensive: Five Sculptors, an exhibition that brings together a group of artists with very different approaches, all with rising reputations. Curated by John Clement, Karen Wilkin and Andy Yoder, the exhibition will be located in the heart of Dumbo, Brooklyn at 111 Front St. #206 (near the corner of Washington St.) from October 7th to the 29th. The gallery will be open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 12 to 5 pm. There will be a reception for the artists on Friday, October 14, from 6 to 9 pm, coinciding with the opening night of the Dumbo Arts Festival.

The five artists in the exhibition work in a wide spectrum of materials to create sculptures whose moods range from serious introspection to playful exuberance, and a lot in between. Their work proposes fresh ways of intensifying the expressive and formal possibilities – the many “flavors” – of contemporary sculpture. Matt Blackwell uses salvaged metal, tin cans and paint to fashion whimsical, yet vaguely ominous figures and everyday objects. The bright colors and intricately patterned work of Linda Ganjian belie the industrial landscape of Brooklyn that informs her work. Peter Lundberg is widely acclaimed for his monumental steel and concrete sculptures which are cast in molds of earth, wood, steel and plastic. Arthur Mednick’s iconic, heavily worked forms are constructed of precisely stacked steel shapes that are welded and burnished to a skin-like surface. The work of Arthur Simms incorporates found objects, metal and string to produce delicate, playfully provocative assemblies that contradict their gritty sources.

2004

June 15, 2005, Silent Auction/Catalog Launch/Open Studios