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| March 5 - April 16, 2005 | |
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 5, 8 - 11 p.m. |
Barbara Rowe
Maps are fascinating visual subjects, dense with information, flattened representations. Election district maps are even more interesting because of the 2-dimensional compression of physical, political, and sociological dimensions. In this concatenation, I'm presenting election districts of the City of Buffalo from the 1990's as relics. I find the resultant shapes offering intriguing connotations and interpretations. The influence of the Olmsted design can be seen in some of the shapes. In others, geographic factors like creeks and the lake edge determine particular forms. But overall, the odd break up of a city pattern reflects political decisions. These are boundaries created with peculiar rhyme and reason. The mapping is almost familiar yet also abstract, and rarely do any of the shapes mimic others.
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e.d. Relics
2005
Acrylic, ink wash, toner, screenprinting on mylar
It feels appropriate to present these e.d.s as relics, these shapes are obsolete when redistricting changes them. Also, it seems nostalgic at best to presume that this method of districting offers representation when the boundaries can be so arbitrary. Laid out as relics, this arrangement of populations in chunks and blocks, separated but connected, creates a strangely ethereal manifestation.
Peter Sowiski
I began making paper for prints twenty-eight years ago, and since that time have been led down a road of broadened involvement with paper as medium. This has formed the basis of my philosophy as a pulp painter and printmaker- economy of equipment and simplified technique can yield statements of complexity and power.
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Stealth Service
1999 - 2005
Handmade paper with colored pulps, silkscreen
12 x 60 feet
Filtered through remembered scenes and visions, improvisational work in paper has come to be represented the last few years by simple, dark works. Stealth Service is a "wall paper" investigation. The rich qualities of pulp allude to photography, impressionism, pop and minimalism. The object and content imposition reflects my alternately serious and playful impulses. The piece functions as a metaphor for observation, perception and awareness. Looking at military might and menace keeps us attuned to the high tech, high stakes times we find ourselves in.