CADD Art Lab presents: Architectonic

by PegNews wire

The Contemporary Art Dealers of Dallas present the opening reception of “Architectonic” at CADD Art Lab on Thursday, May 7, 5-8 p.m. and an afternoon reception on Saturday, May 9, 4-6 p.m. The exhibition will be on view until Thursday, July 9, 2009. Artists featured include Richie Budd, Brian Fridge, Lily Hanson, Daniel Joglar, Stephen Lapthisophon, Annette Lawrence, Pancho Luna, Daniel Mirer, Carolina Sardi, Jay Shinn, Joan Winter, and more.

"Architectonic" means of, or relating to, architecture or having qualities characteristic of architecture. This is a show about architecture, without architecture; rather it is about space and how artists conceptualize space. In this exhibition, artists explore issues central to the practice of architecture such as form, mass, volume, light and shadow, the interior vs. exterior, public vs. private, site-specificity, and making space active. What if those questions were answered by sculptures, installations, drawings, paintings, and videos?

Freed from the constraints of utility and functionality, how does one create alternate answers to investigate space? Artists build up stacks, create hidden spaces, cast new biomorphic forms, suspend objects from the ceiling or off the wall, play with shadows, respond to specific conditions, pulse lights, sounds, and smells into the air, and document the phenomena found in a micro-cosmos. Both artist and architect create a temporal spatial experience for the viewer.

This exhibition will include site-specific installations by the artists Stephen Lapthisophon and Daniel Joglar. Each piece is a response to the gallery, located in the historic Linz Brother’s building in Downtown Dallas, built in 1915. Stephen Lapthisophon is creating an installation to face Main Street Alley, a thoroughfare between Main Street and Commerce St., bordered with a wall of glass on the West side of the gallery. Daniel Joglar, in Dallas from Argentina for the Centraltrak residency program with University of Texas at Dallas, will be creating an installation in the front window of the gallery adjacent to the Downtown Neiman Marcus.

Source: CADD Art Lab