Material Solutions Vernissage

Another great vernissage for Art Pop. We're spoiled for events in this city!

- We all engage with informational systems. Whether a defined social group, a historical canon, or ideas contained only in our own head, we are all in the business of parsing through data streams. It can be overwhelming, especially with the amount of information coming at us these days. We have to be careful about what information we approach and what we avoid, else risk total submersion in cognitive dissonance (or maybe just another day idled away, constantly refreshing Gmails and Facebooks.)

Sean Orena will show D.I.Y. lightboxes which present a material correlated to their subjects’ interior attitudes.

Mélissa Gagné attempts to humanize abstract categories of weak content using the tools at her body’s disposal.Rachel Shaw’s paintings use the isometric “god’s eye” perspective to depict stark interiors populated by familiar objects in idealized geometric terms.

Sadaf Hakimian’s installation: human bodies, their digital representation and their literal mirrored reflections unite in one space.

Patryk Stasieczek’s photographs use chromatic breakdowns to symbolize the different participants within small social units.

Kyle Beal presents metaphysical objects which aims to indisputably prove that ideas can cause real world objects to bounce around.