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| Thursday, September 04, 2008 |
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Art Break: Paralleled 3 @ RMCAD
By Orange Peel Moses @ 2:28 PM :: 154 Views ::
0 Comments :: Art, Events
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wordplay: Ben Simkins
So there I stand with my head slightly cocked like a dog trying to comprehend his owner’s seemingly random actions. My eyes slightly scrunched to see better what is past my sight, even though I’m told I have close to 20/20 vision as long as I get away from the computer screen every few hours. My arms crossed, rolled up program poking out the back of my tight hugging arm. And still the canvas in front of me might as well be one of those hidden 3D pictures from the ‘90’s instead of a bold statement of commercial oversaturation. All right, so I’m not the most savvy art critic (I also don’t claim to be so don’t email me about it), but I do believe I can appreciate art. For me the parallels that art can draw are cutting, relevant and just damn entertaining to bear witness to. So as RMCAD finishes staging its newest exhibit, the third in a series aptly titled “Paralleled”, and throws its doors open to its students and public alike, I find my interest profoundly piqued.
“The gallery’s mission is to inspire a discourse about art,” proclaims RMCAD’s gallery director Cortney Stell. “My idea with this exhibition was to place seemingly disparate genres of art next to each other in order to bring about a dialogue about artistic decisions.”
So what could the gallery bring into the same building to initiate such a dialogue? How about French street art and American landscapes? That do it for ya? On the surface you have old techniques against new. Respected verses outlawed. But look a little closer (cock your head to the side) and find the landscapes of modern decay next to an art-form that is arguably the first ever recorded (in the Lascaux caves of France no less). Now you have a dialogue. Stell and the people at RMCAD aren’t only banking on the merits of their philosophy for the exhibit, oh no… they’re bringing in the big guns to get the ball rolling with some of the leading names in European graffiti street art including Zevs, who has been working and garnering praise in Paris since the birth of modern graffiti in the early eighties; and illustration and graphic design influenced painter ALEXONE. On the other side, photorealist Daniel Sprick, who is collected by major museums including the DAM, and photographer Patti Hallock, who photographs the ‘kitschy west’, give the exhibit its one-two punch.
The exhibit is free to students and non-students alike and is open Mon-Sat from noon-5pm.
Through September 20th @ RMCAD
1600 Pierce
RMCAD.edu
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