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Swarm Gallery

January 30 - March 15, 2010

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Dis/Integrations Sonya Blesofsky, Portico: Georgian Revival (2008), Vellum, tape, glue, dimensions variable
Exhibit Opening | Saturday, January 30, 6-8PM Urban theorists posit that we experience the city by the way in which we move through it. Blesofsky's work is directly inspired by her daily commutes in the city on foot, bicycle, bus or train through an ever-evolving architectural landscape. Primarily, she is interested in structural failure, construction, development and urban renewal. Her work consists of drawings and architecturally-flawed installations made out of paper, cardboard, wax, or foil. It comes from a place of great anxiety about things being unstable or falling apart. Important elements in Blesofsky's work are engineering, scale, shadows and easily recognizable materials. The construction of each piece is labor-intensive, yet once built, the work will soon break, decay or be deconstructed. In this way there is a sense of urgency for experiencing each piece, as this is temporary work. It is important that construction flaws be left visible, as Blesofsky intends to expose the process and techniques used in the creation of each work. With this work she intends to generate questions and emphasize tension relating to dialectics of creation and destruction, vulnerability and indestructibility, the light and the dark, and stability and the tenuous.