AUGUST EXHIBITION
"Breaking Down Music"
Group Show: Shannon Lucy,
Katherine Kisa
August 1st- August 31st
* Opening Reception:
Saturday, August 2nd 6pm-9pm
THE SHOWROOM is delighted to announce a group exhibition of
two artists whose work explores the dissection, production and nostalgia
of music’s physical and emotional forms. With today’s music industry shifting
so rapidly, we constantly find ourselves reverting back to the basics,
the blues and the beginnings.
SHANNON LUCY, originally from Nashville, has
discovered a striking new medium within the classical bars of musical
notation. Her large-scale imaginary scores are comprised of real
notes with no direction except for that which the viewer construes from
its random measures. Just as sheet music is a written representation
of music, Lucy’s representation of music is rendered to become an ornament
of design to enjoy aesthetically. Her compositions are not authoritative
but rather free and open to interpretation. She has captured a
certain jovial nonsense entrenched with emotion, chaos and nostalgia,
like that which a conductor might feel before he guides his orchestra.
Lucy’s Bad Thought series are “visual interpretations” of love,
loss and life, like the whistle of old country songs or the
whimsy of a children's rhyme. These undefined musical exaggerations
beckon us to look closer and to see it as a unique language and melodic
vehicle. Shannon Lucy currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
KATHERINE KISA dares
to dissect the classics through slicing up old 45’s and re-contextualizes
their purpose in a beautifully crafted minimal presentation. These
very “cool” pieces made entirely of vinyl records, betoken the impact
music has had on our personal, cultural and creative experiences. However,
Kisa has chosen a simple, sleek presentation to epitomize the complex
association between the mechanical, instrumental and artistic components
of music. The
product is a sure thing, fast track back to “the days” we can all recall
when a certain band or song introduced us to love, lust, danger or regret. Kisa
invokes this emotional response through the negative space she creates
with white paint over vinyl, which seems to enshrine the cropped records
creating trophy like dispositions. Tapping into everything from
the simplest ballads to the most complex symphonies, we see her offering
tribute to the instruments, production and extraordinary talent behind
our vast music industry. Katherine Kisa currently lives and works
in Washington, DC.
OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday, August 2nd 6pm
to 9pm during the Gallery Crawl
For additional information or images please contact Sera Davis at info@seradavis.com
or at 347 306 1859.
