Monday, October 8, 2012

Stray Light Grey

Last week I enjoyed a lovely lunch and afternoon with my friend, the fabulous Mr. Ulrich Lang of Paris Anvers, Inc.  I was honored to have the time with him as he is in the middle of the global launch of his fourth fragrance, LightScape.  We spent the afternoon in a few galleries, did a little store-checking, and ran into a few friends along the way.

Stray Light Grey is a current exhibition at the Marlborough Chelsea gallery (545 West 25th Street, New York City).  It is a collaboration between Jonah Freeman and Justin Lowe. 

"A warren of corridors, chambers and passageways is configured into a spatial collage that gives a fragmented vision of a parallel metropolis.  As if the visitor has entered a bizarro New York City simulated in a foreign country where the details have been perverted in translation.  The overall conglomeration is a system of architecture that forms a sculpture in its totality, a concept of the city as a clumsy monument whose symbolic identity is never fully materialized."

Climbing out of the bathtub and into the room next door through a hole in the wall ...



Freeman and Lowe have been in collaboration since 2007.  Jonah Freeman was born in 1975 in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  He graduated from Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.  Justin Lowe was born in 1976 in Dayton, Ohio.  Lowe received an MFA from Columbia University, New York.  The artists currently live and work between New York and Los Angeles.

The exhibit runs through October 27, 2012.