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Vessel Gallery

October 4 - October 30, 2011

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471 25th Street Oakland, CA 94612
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The Cycle Potential multiple sculptures ~ 12" x 12" x 2.5", cement, rocks, steel, polymar, by Cyrus Tilton (2011)
OPENING Reception October 7, 6-9PM ARTIST TALK: Saturday, October 8th, 2-4PM meet Cyrus Tilton and learn about the artist’s process and hear him speak about his latest works included in “The Cycle” Vessel Gallery, 471 25th Street, Oakland, CA 94612, 510 893 8800 Tuesdays through Saturdays, 11-6PM Vessel Gallery is pleased to announce Cyrus Tilton’s latest body of work in a solo exhibition. “The Cycle” opens to the public on Tuesday, October 4th and shows through Saturday, October 29th. This show explores parallels between locust swarms and humanity's habits of mass consumption and over-population, through sculpture and site-specific installation. Art of natural science meets creepy kinetic deliverance. This spectacle of a show is not to be missed! Fifty percent of net sales of “Individuals” (the site-specific kinetic installation) will benefit Alameda Food Bank. “As far as the consumption aspect of the show… I have always been mindful of my own consumption of whatever products or food, and during this process I have tried to be even more aware of it. There is only so much you can do to control that. Every person requires a certain amount of sustenance. One of the things I have thought about since the downturn in the economy is how people in the US don’t seem to produce anything anymore. Now it has turned into ideas being sold, intangible things. So much is based on computers and the Internet, and not physical things. When you base an economy on figments of your imaginations, the balance is getting messed with. There is nothing to show physically for your efforts. We’ve given that away to other countries to do. Kids growing up in an environment where we aren’t expected to produce--how that will affect the next generations? Will people have to relearn how to create or build? I am making a huge generalization, but a lot of people I know work in offices and behind computers. I am not judging them because I people have to make a living. But are we becoming more like insects? When I drive by an apartment building I can’t help but see it as a hive. Seems like compartments for individuals to live in. We are connecting to one another in ways that look to me like we’re worker bees or worker ants, feeding the queen ant. Are we more insect like in our behavior? And is that bad? Or maybe we are closer to insect hierarchies that we like to think.” - Cyrus Tilton