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News & ArtsFriday, September 18, 2009
Visual Art Currently Hanging
Posted by Jen Graves on Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 10:05 AM
A successful installation at Suyama Space can be measured by a single metric: does it feel like you haven't been in it before? The gallery itself is so distinctive—belly-like, with vaulted wood ceilings, creaky and splintery wood floors, and heavenward windows up top—that it overtakes any art that shows the slightest sign of weakness or sameness. Your memories of that art aren't of that art, they're of the space. On the flip side, a strong enough work of art will redefine the space and at the same time reveal aspects about it you hadn't noticed you'd been overlooking all along. Your memories of the space will be of this art.
Dan Corson's new installation Grotesque Arabesque reveals Suyama Space to be the hull of a ship hurtling through deep sea or night sky, with a giant green hologram of a glowing grotto suspended in its pleasure-seekingly mirrored interior. It feels as if this Suyama Space has been here all along waiting for a black light to illuminate it. (Could a site-specific installation get a higher compliment?)
It involves steel strips, electroluminescent tape, a giant reflecting pool on the floor, and 18-foot-long Mylar mirrors on the far wall.
The show opens tomorrow nighttonight and the artist talk is Saturday at noon.
In other cave-related art news, Leo Berk's show at Lawrimore Project, with political overtones, opens Tuesday. They're different and both worth seeing.
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