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The
delicate gouache works on paper in Joseph
Phillips’ current body of work are subtly
satirical explorations of imagined utopias and play
with ideas of land commodification. The works in this
series depict pre-fabricated land units that could
theoretically be dropped into place in affluent suburban
sprawl. Phillips uses a specific and limited palette
of soothing colors for his counterfeit environments
to reference the consumer aspect of his modular land
units, not unlike images in a catalogue.
String Theory (Earth), 2010
gouache, ink & graphite
18 x 24 inches
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Shawn
Smith’s meticulously created and fantastical
sculptures present un-natural nature to a society
increasingly influenced and reliant on television
and computers for a digital window to the natural
world. These pixilated, abstracted forms are immediately
engaging and seemingly familiar. Smith says, “My conceptual
and material practice explores digital identity, color,
colliding systems of information, labor, technology,
and science. As an object maker, I am interested in
relating these concepts back to the symbiotic connection
between the hand and the ‘thing.’"
Naturally Competitive Patterns, 2010
Balsa, Bass, acrylic paint, and ink
30 x 24 x 13 inches |
