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TRICIA McLAUGHLIN, aquatecture |
MARCH 23 - APRIL 22, 2006
Reception: Thursday, March 23, 6-8
Sixtyseven
547 west 27th St., #309
(between 10th and 11th ave)
New York, NY 10001
212.967.2260
http://www.sixtsevengallery.com
Sixtyseven is pleased to announce the opening of 'aquatecture', Tricia McLaughlin's second solo show with the gallery. Tricia McLaughlin works with 3-D animation, sculpture and installation. Her work explores the relationship between designed environments and human behavior.
McLaughlin's humorous animations depict imaginary habitats that usually revolve around a strange architectural construct. Human-like characters go about their daily lives in a controlled environment that satisfies their basic bodily functions. Routine and repetition is a central theme, where rudimentary characters sometime go to extremes in order to perform the most mundane actions.
In 'Precision Diving Wheel', you must take a potentially fatal risk and dive off the top of a ferris wheel to make it into one of the revolving buckets of water, which temporarily means survival until you begin the process again. The aquarium of water in 'SeeWorld' limits the movement of its occupants, leaving them to buoy up and down helplessly. The device in 'Home Rolled' allows you to create roads in water while providing an all-in-one unit to cook, clean and sleep. The large-scale sculpture made after 'Home Rolled' allows the viewers to experience the device in their own physical environment. Obviously, this prototype is not an entirely feasible creation in real life.
Tricia McLaughlin received her BFA from Syracuse University and her MFA in combined media from Hunter College in New York. Her work has been shown in museums, art centers and galleries nationally and internationally, most recently in "Living Systems" at the Contemporary Art Center of Virginia. Her work has also been shown at the Bronx Museum of Art, Art in General, White Box, Florence Lynch Gallery, and Four Walls in Brooklyn. Future projects include a solo exhibition at the Kyoto Contemporary Art Center in Japan, and a public art project at the Virginia Beach Conference Center.
McLaughlin is a 2005 recipient of the the John Simon Guggenheim fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts grant, and the Jerome Foundation for Media Arts award. She lives and works in New York. Her first solo show with Sixtyseven was in 2003. aquatecture will be on view from March 23 through April 22, 2006. Gallery hours are Tuesday through Saturday, from 11:00 am to 6:00 pm. For further information please contact Claire Lemetais or Ron Segev at 212.967.2260.
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