“Roadside Vernacular Architecture”
January 13 – February 11, 2024
Opening Reception: Sat., Jan. 13, 5:30-8pm
Paul Zelevansky
This exhibition of wall-hanging sculptures by Paul Zelevansky play with the expectations and functionality of architecture in its various forms. Many of the works suggest buildings, bridges, games, or other kinds of habitable structures and environments.
Many of the works in this exhibition suggest buildings, bridges, games, or other kinds of habitable forms and environments. Several have wheels so could theoretically travel the paths over, or through the various structures. Many of the pieces contain graphic signs and texts that enhance or divert the meaning of the architecture. The mix of materials, fragments, signs of nostalgia and pop culture reference different times and places, producing a hybrid and local vernacular language of form.
Despite the push and pull of sometimes contradictory forces, the sculptures as a group are in conversation, sharing the flexible language of collage thinking where the assumptions and effects of the MIx take hold. The sculptures are meaningful, if not familiar, because tension, release, balance, support, weight, presence, and materiality are meaningful facts of everyday life.
Gallery hours: Thurs-Sun, 1-6pm
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