Unreal Estate

February 11- February 21, 2014

Zachary See, Maggie Moody, Natalie Lerner and Jennifer Pappas.

Unreal Estate focuses on the location and emotion elements of physical objects in order to compose an experience as a separate state of being. Looking at examples of both paintings and sculpture, each artist is investigating both past and present experiences that culminate to describe personal shards reality. The exhibit1on is conceived as an open house, to explore a series of collective experiences that invite audiences to then develop fresh ideas about the structure of abstraction. These works will sketch out the intersections between art making and experiences with located memory. Through the process of selection and production, Zachary See has developed a practice based on simple comforts and the complexities of a contemporary American dream. Through the act of a crafted selection, highly artificial color and consumer products describe a synthetic, manufactured experience with an interpretation. Inversely, the manipulation of raw materials suggests both a hands-on involvement and mastery of craft that describes the personal and intimate relationships we have with objects and experiences. Maggie Moody's work is influenced from elements of home and mid-century modern architecture. Using the process of reduction and manipulation she then creates a new experience based on these formal qualities focusing on line, shape, color and space and their new possible relationships to each other while creating a balance between them. The works that Natalie Lerner presents in this exhibition center around encounters with others in her time away from her native home of Florida. She creates a psychological map of her experience by housing elements of the individual conversations and environments in a multitude of forms. By using a range of mediums and language devices, she carefully crafts an encapsulated moment for her viewers. Jennifer Pappas paints invented landscapes that dep1ct a similar event occurring in many different locations. The imagery is kept ambiguous allowing for a reality that references natural elements while exploring principles of direction, exploratory mark making, gravity, and heavy layering techniques.