January 13 - February 11, 2024
Opening Reception: Sat., Jan. 13, 5:30-8pm
closing reception: Sun., feb. 11, 4-6pm
Roadside Vernacular Architecture
Paul Zelevansky
Many of the works in this Plus/Space exhibition by Paul Zelevansky suggest buildings, bridges, games, or other kinds of habitable forms and environments. Several have wheels so could theoretically travel the paths over, or through the various structures. Many of the pieces contain graphic signs and texts that enhance or divert the meaning of the architecture. The mix of materials, fragments, signs of nostalgia and pop culture reference different times and places, producing a hybrid and local vernacular language of form.
Despite the push and pull of sometimes contradictory forces, the sculptures as a group are in conversation, sharing the flexible language of collage thinking where the assumptions and effects of the MIx take hold. The sculptures are meaningful, if not familar, because tension, release, balance, support, weight, presence, and materality are meaningful facts of everyday life.
SUNDAY, JANUARY 28, 4-5PM
Paul Zelevansky will give a performance titled The Other Room, followed by a conversation with critic, scholar and curator Seph Rodney.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Crystal Hudson, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Joseph Robert Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.