Guardrail Damage Ahead - Tim Best and Eric Blake

Start date: Saturday, April 4, 2009
Event is ongoing: Until Saturday, April 25, 2009

Guardrail Damage Ahead is an amalgamation of drawing, bookcraft, photography, and video.

Blake's work based on a prearranged system of order suggests a basic truth or an underlying code. Comically the code cannot be contained. He begins from a base of minimal line drawing on paper and steps into a world of small, simple books that take on a life of their own, spiraling out of control into something resembling a three ring circus--in a quiet sort of way.

Best works from a foundation based in the corporate culture. He takes the perspective from inside the business suit. What should have been order and security turns out to be something else altogether. The characters he has created in photographs and on the screen are groomed for control--self control, a controlled environment. But something has to give.

Guardrail Damage Ahead.

UPSTAIRS GALLERY: Reflections, work by Jennifer Jones. Jennifer Jones' MFA Thesis Show is comprised of works from her "Reflections" series that deals with memories from her childhood and father's death. Jennifer depicts imagery in a serene, anachronistic manner, similar to how the mind stores memories. She has tried to display these memories grouped in disparate clumps, images triggered by emotion, words, smells, thoughts, people or places. She has culled these images and assembled them to create an aesthetic of remembering and forgetting. Rather than give a direct narrative in her work, she leaves subtle hints of how one might interpret the imagery, offering up open questions for the viewer.

PROJECT ROOM: A Swiftly Tilting Planet - a new collaborative installation by Christopher Bond and Sean Adam Ibanez.