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Opening reception : Friday, April 4th, 6-9 p.m.
Producing Space presents new site responsive works by Aaron Finnis, Cybele Lyle, Amy M. Ho, and Emma Spertus. While pursuing distinct practices, these four artists similarly work with re-purposed images, materials and existing spaces in ways that reference normative modes of representation, while also subverting them, instigating psychological responses and suggesting new possibilities. To varying degrees, their architectural and material manipulations call attention to and critique the cultural production of space, exploring relationships between illusion and reality, constructed space, constructed subjectivity and power.
For Producing Space, the artists literally produce a new space, or set of spatial possibilities, within Interface Gallery with site responsive works that are simultaneously surreal, playful and subversive. Spertus contributes a work that covers the gallery window and door, advertising a fictional sculpture exhibit. The piece literally functions as blinds, blocking light from the gallery and enhancing Lyle and Ho's projected works within. Lyle and Ho each project video works onto the existing gallery architecture, such as the gallery skylights (Ho), merging outside and in, imagined and existing space. Meanwhile, Finnis combines everyday, mass produced objects with the digital, referencing physical and virtual spaces of production that reflect and construct our social and cultural identity.
Three out of four of these artists share studio space in an Oakland studio, aptly named "Real, Time and Space," which was founded by Spertus. The artists first exhibited their work together in 2011 in a show at The Lab entitled, A Floorless Room without Walls. Interface Gallery is pleased to bring their work together again for this exhibition.