Time + Measure
Nov 13 - Dec 22, 2007
Friday, November 30: Gallery Talk 6pm / Reception 7pm
‹ Installation view featuring works by RL Croft
Maryland Art Place is pleased to announce Time and Measure—an exhibition featuring installation-based work by three artists working in different media with subtly overlapping intentions. Each artist has a different means of exploring the notion of timing as it relates to perception, determining the basis for which a work is measured by way of interpretation.
R.L. Croft builds large colorful metal sculptures constructed from scavenged consumer and industrial materials intended to create the effect of two conflicting forces—that of despair, juxtaposed with anxious humor and a haven through work.
Christopher Whittey examines the way in which industry perceives the individual as an instrument in the labor process through his three part installation series, The Body of Work. In the first of this three part series, One Hand Washes the Other, the artist displays 16,000 cast fingers on the gallery floor to represent the number of fingers amputated in labor-related situations annually. The wall panels that accompany the installation represent the three different technologies through which the laborer is processed—the industrial, the medical and the aesthetic, contributing to the notion that the laborer is viewed as a commodity—freely exchanged between these technological areas.
Kevin Wolff creates sound and video installations that examine the idea of perceptual versus conceptual interpretation, and the relationship that exists between the two. In speaking about his work, Wolff comments, “It arises from an interest in how one’s view of external, purportedly objective reality may necessarily be filtered through or even created by internal, subjective states of mind.”
Read the Review in the Baltimore Examiner ›
