Upcoming:
UB Anderson Gallery is closed for the summer for renovations.
Upcoming:
NLXL a design studio for visual communication and interaction
July 1 through July 25, 2008
Opening reception
Thursday, July 17, 2008
5:30 to midnight
NLXL experiments with the possibilities of combining visual and interactive elements within single design solutions. Content, form and technique are carefully considered in each and every solution. NLXL designs logos, corporate and visual identities, web sites and web-identities, event styles, forms, posters, animations, books, content management systems, digital presentations and other digital applications. The exhibition will feature graphic posters and an interactive, multimedia installation.
Shadi Nazarian: Introversions
July 1 through July 25, 2008
Nazarian frames and choreographs an architectural experience as
audiences are drawn toward a responsive minimalist structure, seemingly
hovering in midair. Working in the fertile intersections of art,
architecture, and emergent technology, she employs switchable Liquid
crystal layered privacy glass to explore cognition and think about the
ways in which we navigate the environment we live in. In the commercial
sector, privacy glass has been used primarily for partitions, display
cases, bank screens, and as enclosures for conference rooms, and
provocatively, in dressing rooms and bathrooms. Presented in an academic
and artistic context, Introversions seeks to discover how new materials
such as privacy glass fundamentally alter spatial relationships and
human perception. Nazarian isolates and enhances disorienting moments
inherent to urban conditions that are triggered by reflections and other
strange sights seen out of the corner of the eye by combining minimalist
sculpture and architecture to generate uncanny optical effects.
Nazarian moved to New York City in 1989 to join I.M. Pei & Partners as
an architectural designer, and then to Ithaca, NY to teach at Cornell
University (1991-92, and 1999-2002). She has been teaching at the State
University of New York at Buffalo in the School of Architecture and
Urban Planning since 1994.
The production of Introversions is sponsored in part, by a generous
grant from the New York State Council on the Arts Individual Artists
Program (Film, Media and New Technology Production Category), New York
Foundation for the Arts Special Opportunity Stipends, as well as the
support of CBO Glass, KNEMA LLC, Polytronix Inc. and SMG HARSON.
Fabrication by factoryny.
