Memories: 1985-2000 opens May 24

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Outer Space is please to present:

Memories: 1985-2000
by Camden Place

Opening: May 24, 2013 from 6-8 PM

Camden Place. "Ace and I," Digital Collage, Frame, 14” x 17”

Camden Place. “Ace and I,” Digital Collage, Frame, 14” x 17”

Place’s work explores his fascination of the gap between our knowledge of self and our perception of self.  We readily look for cues or ideas on how to carry or comport ourselves from people or representations of people we see around us, building these other examples into our identity.  His work explores this relationship, addressing the influence that mainstream media and culture has on how he perceives himself.

In Memories: 1985-2000, Place creates an environment filled with the relics of his childhood.  He has taken literal elements of his youth, placed them in their appropriate environs, and rewoven them to include fictitious characters from films that have impacted or influenced him.  The pieces seek to draw attention to a relationship that is incredibly potent, yet chronically unseen. These characters helped to shape how he thinks, speaks and acts.  They were central players in Place’s upbringing and therefore should be represented as solidly and literally as their influence.  By placing them into images from his childhood they take their rightful place amongst the people who shaped his growth and history; creating a far more accurate and full-bodied representation of his past.

Camden Place, "Dunbar, Jim, Jessica and Me," Digital Collage, Frame, 17” x 14”

Camden Place, “Dunbar, Jim, Jessica and Me,” Digital Collage, Frame, 17” x 14”

Camden Place, "Skyler, Chelsea, Maverick and Me," Digital Collage, Frame, 11” x 13”

Camden Place, “Skyler, Chelsea, Maverick and Me,” Digital Collage, Frame, 11” x 13”

Memories: 1985-2000 opens May 24, 2013 with a reception from 6-8 pm. The gallery will be open by appointment through June 14, 2013.

Contact signalouterspace@gmail.com to set up an appointment.

Photos from Ahoy, Polloi!

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Check out some of the photos below from Carson Murdach’s opening…just in case you missed the opportunity to see it in person!

Outer Space presents Carson Murdach

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Outer Space is pleased to present:

Ahoy, Polloi! 
by Carson Murdach

Opening March 23, 2013 from 5-8 PM

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Carson Murdach, “Columbus Day,” Graphite and gouache on paper, 18″ x 30″

Drawing from the traditions of folk and historical landscape painting, Carson Murdach investigates history’s cyclical nature. He disrupts otherwise picturesque scenes by inserting naively rendered houses and other architecture, creating a visual incongruity that teases out the tension between the man-made environment and nature. Populated with ships, homogeneous houses and signs of industry, Murdach’s works narrate a cautionary tale of humanity’s pattern of civilization.

Ahoy, Polloi! marks the second solo venture in Outer Space.  The exhibit connects a site specific installation with sculpture and works on paper.

Carson Murdach, Detail of “Banksman,” Wood and acrylic

Carson Murdach, Detail of “Banksman,” Wood and acrylic

Ahoy, Polloi! opens March 23, 2013 with a reception from 5-8 pm. The gallery will be open by appointment through April 14, 2013.

Contact signalouterspace@gmail.com to set up an appointment.

Victoria Greising in Outer Space

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Outer Space is pleased to announce our very first solo mission:

walk in | walk out
by Victoria Greising

Opening: January 18, 2013 from 6-8 pm

Victoria Greising, "The Fountain," Digital Print, 2013

Victoria Greising, “the fountain,” Digital Print, 2012

walk in | walk out is a meeting of a site specific installation and a new body of work that synthesizes the visual elements found in the artist’s previous installations, while responding to the accessibility of digital manipulation of images and drawing.

Working from sketches to computer, Victoria Greising creates abstract linear prints.  Starting on small pieces of paper, napkins, hotel pads, etc. she constructs dense linear drawings that are then scanned into the computer.  Manipulating the image on the computer, she fills in the surfaces, transforms color, and multiplies the original template of the image.  The final pieces activate a dialogue focused on the hand made vs. digital and, more importantly, the artist’s ability and specific choice to use technology as a tool of the mobile studio.  The end product is a marriage between the hand of the artist and the flat plastic quality of digital enhancement- they are not explicitly drawings or prints, but somewhere in between.  And while, they hint at painting through formal characteristics, the works situate themselves just outside of that dialogue.

Simultaneously the flat works act as mock representations of the installation that is occupying the majority of the gallery, while the installation communicates as a three dimensional interpretation of the flat works. The density of the web reaches up into the rafters and strategically wraps around the existing architectural structure creating a tunnel for the viewer to walk through.  Ultimately leading to the door, the piece invites the viewer to traverse the space of the installation in order to enter or exit the rest of the gallery.

Victoria Greising, Mock-up sketch of site specific installation

Victoria Greising, Mock-up sketch of site specific installation, 2013

Victoria Greising, Detail of previous installation in Botswana, “Gatherings.”

Victoria Greising, “gatherings”, Detail image from installation at the US Ambassadorial residence, Gaborone, Botswana- with ART in Embassies, 2012

walk in | walk out opens January 18, 2013 with a reception from 6-8 pm. The gallery will be open Saturdays from 2-5 pm and by appointment.
Contact signalouterspace@gmail.com to set up an appointment.