Dorsch Gallery presents three solo exhibitions February 13 – March 6, 2010 by Kyle Trowbridge, Alex Golden and Keith Sklar. The opening for the artists will be Saturday, February 13, 7-10pm
Kyle Trowbridge’s recent objects and images revolve around the impressionable forces we as malleable entities face in the midst of an “aggressively evolving” modern society, exploring the dynamic between unknowing victim and plotting victimizer. For Pleasure Seekers, his solo show at Dorsch Gallery, Trowbridge continues on this theme, turning his attention towards our current culture’s love affair with the Internet. Trowbridge investigates the dynamics of technology-mediated relationships, asking what we have gained and what we have lost.
Alex Golden is an interdisciplinary artist currently working at the crossroads of photography, video-installation, and theater. For this exhibition Golden will be showing Knock-Off, a video installation exploring various cultural institutions in relation to disillusionment, longing, and creativity. The animated opera at the center of the installation is formed entirely by stop-motion animations, composed of thousands of still photographs. Using forced perspective, Golden builds the sets in model scale and then photographs live actors who are inserted into the sets digitally in post-production. Projected into a gallery installation that brings the forced-perspective set design into the space of the viewer, these heartfelt and urgent tales deftly interweave material, cultural, and historical references to create a visually hypnotic and thought-provoking experience.
Keith Sklar presents de-lux, a series exploring issues of wealth and loss, power and subordination, and the process of seeing itself. His topographical surfaces are built up from found objects or cast and molded acrylic paint. He then creates an image surface in oils, visually flattening the surface with a reverse trompe-l’oeil and confounding the viewer’s sense of dimension.
Dorsch Gallery is located at 151 NW 24th St., Miami, FL 33127.
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