Live in Chicago? Like sculpture?
A very good friend of mine from Chicago, Noah Loesberg, is having his work featured at a gallery exhibition; the opening is this coming Friday, March 22nd, from 6pm to 9pm. The gallery’s website has yet to be updated with the information for Noah’s show, but here’s a little something to whet your appetite for thought-provoking sculpture:
Noah Loesberg ‘s first solo exhibition consists of three works in the project room that reevaluate and mystify elements of quotidian architecture. Loesberg alters and recontextualizes the extraneous devices in our environment that are ordinarily overlooked and ignored. A radiator is sculpted out of plywood and moved away from its home against the wall, and placed centrally with a new presence. On the wall, a smoke detector sits enlarged to the point of absurdity, but insists on seriousness by intoning a dire poem of weather notes in an inhuman computer simulated voice. A concrete curb borders the room, no longer separating the sidewalk from the street, but instead separating the viewer from the wall transforming itself into a variety of baseboard or molding. Stripped of their function these three mundane structures become sculptural objects that are suddenly alien, foreign and unfamiliar. Noah Loesberg lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has recently exhibited in Rockford-Midwestern; Artists of the New Millennium at the Rockford Art Museum in Rockford, IL; Redo at Standard Gallery in Chicago, IL and This Side Up at Spaces in Cleveland, OH.
I know Noah from his M.F.A. days at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and I’m sad that I can’t attend his event. Any and all of you regular etherf@rmers from Chicago should attend in my place—I’m sure you’ll be impressed. Vendanta Gallery is located at 835 West Washington and can be reached by phone at 312.432.0708 or by email. They also have a website, though as I mentioned, it hasn’t yet been updated.
If you go and meet Noah, please tell him resonance says hello.
[ I’ll also post this on Friday ]
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