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| The Dinner Table, oil on canvas, 44x34", 2012 |
I'm pleased to announce my next solo show opening at the George Billis
Gallery, Los Angeles, on November 17th from 5-8pm. Titled
Future Perfect,
this show investigates the optimism of Mid-century architecture under
the weight of the housing crises. Shunning pure observation and delving
more into a psychoanalytical realm, this body of work will be my most
personal to date.
Artist Statement:
"Better living through design. That was the Modern architect’s creed as WWII
came to a close and a whole generation of returning GI’s would come home to
claim the American Dream – a home, a car in the driveway, and a hot meal on the
table. With this surge of home buyers
and large swaths of land that would soon become the suburbs, architects were
faced with creating a new design vocabulary for living. As a reaction to the atrocities in war-torn
Europe, all the hopes of a better world would be embodied in the architecture
of recent immigrant architects, as well as home-grown talent. They crafted not just homes, but communities
that focused on family as well as a deep connection to the outdoors and the
beauty of the natural environment. With
recent developments in technology and aerospace design, architecture was looking
forward with an optimism that has been unmatched in our history. My new body of work,
Future Perfect, looks at
this period of groundbreaking design and asks, what has become of our
expectations? Did the near utopian
future we hoped for ever come to fruition?
Certainly the threat of nuclear war has diminished, but we still live
under a cloud of international fear.
There is widespread unrest and our common outlook on the future provides
very little comfort. As the symbol of
the once idyllic future we hoped for, I center this discussion on midcentury
Modern housing. It’s fitting then, that the
thing that was supposed to exemplify the better life we strived for has come
crashing down with the housing market collapse.
What happened to the perfect future we thought was just beyond the
horizon?"
Future PerfectOpening: November 17th, 5-8pm
George Billis Gallery2716 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
