Nancy Davidson
Angie Drakopoulous
Laura Emrick
Lindsey Nobel
Rune Arne Berg Olsen
Scott Reynolds
Joslin Stevens
Gordon
Terry...Daniel Wiener
9/4/2001
Perfect Plastic
G-module, Paris
g-module, the project of ex-patriot American art consultant Jeff Gleich, will present works by 9 American artists in the urban industrial art space, continuing the presentation of contemporary art in various media by emerging and established artists, mostly from New York.
(Complètement Plastique)
g-module, the project of ex-patriot American art consultant Jeff Gleich, will present works by 9 American artists in the urban industrial art space, continuing the presentation of contemporary art in various media by emerging and established artists, mostly from New York.
Perfect Plastic (Complètement Plastique), the third exhibition at g-module, consists of works by Nancy Davidson, Angie Drakopoulous, Laura Emrick, Lindsey Nobel, Rune Arne Berge Olsen, Scott Reynolds, Joslin Stevens, Gordon Terry and Daniel Wiener.
In Perfect Plastic (Complètement Plastique), the 9 participating artists utilize various mediums of plastic: acrylic, hydrocal, latex, plastic wrap, resin etc. merged with other techniques creating two and three-dimensional works.
In previous years, example artists like Louise Bourgeois, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse and more recently, Paul McCarthy, Allan McCollum and Jason Rhoades, working with plastic materials, either appropriated or made, referenced ideas about the human body, gender, psychosexuality, industry and technology in conceptual and literal works. The mission to mimic or represent an object in light of these subjects or concepts remains in Perfect Plastic (Complètement Plastique), but the tendency here in using the medium is focused on the extremes of the sex-morphing animal body, the otherworldly and human/non-human polarity.
- Nancy Davidson's animated, air blown, latex sculptures are dressed with lace and corsets, which relay a (fe)male sexual exorbitance.
- Angie Drakopoulous uses found plastic objects for her alien like, embryonic cast resin sculptures, which illuminate and appear alive.
- Laura Emrick's "x-ray" bags are assemblages of plastic toy objects inside colored transparent sacs, backlit by fluorescent light, taking the visible to "extra-visible".
- Lindsey Nobel creates an installation of suspended plastic creatures colonizing in an imagined aqueous habitat, accompanied by sounds of ocean waves.
- Gordon Terry replaces the canvas with acrylic stretched over acrylic stretcher bars in his paintings of celluloid patterned forms of a 'dandy' psychedelic era.
- Joslin Stevens creates multicolored relief "tapestries" of cast latex breasts and nipples, as if assembled for sampling specimens of female anatomy or for creating a Pennsylvania Dutch quilt.
- Rune Arne Berg Olsen creates plastic wrap and string sculptures of morphed ants with human phalluses and testicles recalling dada and surrealist tendencies, just more sci-fi.
- Scott Reynolds makes transparent vinyl wall hangings titled "Stained Glass Window Documents" on the surface of which faux wood grains are drawn suggesting a humorous approach to portraiture.
- Daniel Wiener's wall and suspended wire and plastic sculptures resemble that of strangely pigmented life forms evoking an amusing yet equally disturbing behavior.
Upcoming show: Drawing(Selected) (June 2001), an exhibition of 7 Americans including an American in Paris and a Frenchwoman in New York.
Hours are 12:00-19:00, Tuesday through Saturday.
g-module
15, rue Debelleyme (corner rue de Poitou) in the Marais, Paris.
Phone 01.42.71.14.75