Growing Beams Project I | Sculpture | 2005 - 06

Press Release:

Cypress College Fine Arts Gallery:
WE STORE COLLECT & MEMORIZE
Curated Johannes Christian Schoen

Darcy Bartoletti, Richard Bartoletti, Benjamin Britton, Matthew Carver and Bari Ziperstein

February 1 – February 28, 2006

Cypress College Fine Arts Gallery is pleased to present WE STORE COLLECT & MEMORIZE, a group exhibition, curated by Johannes Christian Schoen, featuring work by Darcy Bartoletti, Richard Bartoletti, Benjamin Britton, Matthew Carver and Bari Ziperstein.

Johannes Christian Schoen brings together the work of five artists who investigate the idea of the archive through sculpture, installation, painting, video and computer programming. Whilst archives are often perceived as belonging within an institutional context, the exhibition wants to relate the archive to the individual and their daily experience of processing information, which ranges from the trivial to the complex. The exhibition will investigate the possibilities and dead ends of this process in both its physical and social dimensions with each artist exploring the archival system by processing information or data into arbitrary categories of storage.

Bari Ziperstein proposes a collection of collages and site-specific sculptures. In her collages, Ziperstein chooses to use imagery from contemporary home décor magazines, which depict the cultural construction of wealth, thus supporting the fantasy of the ‘American Dream’. Paralleling the collage work, site-specific sculptures of arranged vases and picture frames become the bases from which white, plaster beams protrude and extrude, creating illogical architectural constructions. These absurd structures, without functional are a direct response to over growth and excess in America; thus the objects literally become our landscape, adapting to the current consumer orientated lifestyle of America.