GrayDuck gallery RED LEFT BLUE RIGHT

This review by Owen Bay: theowenbay@gmail.com Check out the work up at GrayDuck gallery.  Prepare for the mind melt.  This is a fun show curated by Phillip Edward Needermyer.  Just kidding it is Niemeyer.  I believe he is from Brooklyn.  We will let that slide for now.  Niemeyer has put together a brain bender.  Put on a pair of 3D specs and drift into the magic.  Bring popcorn. This is a group show worth seeing.  I would write about each piece but I do not get paid enough.  below is from the grayDuck website: RED LEFT BLUE RIGHT

Guest Curator - Phillip Edward Niemeyer

opening reception: friday, may 10, 7-9pm

exhibition dates: may 10 - june 16, 2013

grayDUCK gallery and Phillip Edward Niemeyer present a show of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography and design for anaglyph 3-D glasses. Some of the work uses traditional anaglyph 3-D in unconventional ways. Other pieces exploit the red/blue color filtering of the glasses to purposefully short the optic signals to the mind, creating illusory vibrations and a new color, a hot violet. Artists: Alec Dartley, Dan Forbes, Dana McClure, Hannah Cole, James Blagden, Joseph Phillips, Mike Reddy, Nicole Stone, Phillip Edward Niemeyer, Rebecca Rothfus, Ryan Junell, Shawn Camp & Tanya Newton-John. As a companion piece to the show, experimental label Aagoo is releasing DOUBLE MONO, a compilation recorded in double mono: the left and right chanels play distinct sounds. Double Mono features music and sounds by Palaxy Tracks, John Saba Jr., Devin Maxwell, !!!, Jim Eno, The Octopus Project, AU and Erin Flannery & Zach Layton. The limited pressing of 300 will be available at the gallery for the duration of the show. Opening reception sponsored by Dripping Springs Texas Vodka and features red and blue drinks by The Goodtime Gals.

Sonya Berg Tiny Park

Sonya Berg mixes paintings and photos. By examining the ambiguity and origination via retakes and variations, Berg creates intense personal moments masterfully created by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles. Her paintings doesn’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By applying abstraction, she absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into daily practice. This personal follow-up and revival of a past tradition is important as an act of meditation.
Her works never shows the complete structure. This results in the fact that the artist can easily imagine an own interpretation without being hindered by the historical reality. By contesting the division between the realm of memory and the realm of experience, she tries to increase the dynamic between audience and author by objectifying emotions and investigating the duality that develops through different interpretations.
Her collected, altered and own works are being confronted as aesthetically resilient, thematically interrelated material for memory and projection. The possible seems true and the truth exists, but it has many faces, as Hanna Arendt cites from Franz Kafka

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