Images from the exhibition

Lucas Kelly’s drawings are made up of a very complex system of simple forms based on gallows, storage containers, coffins, and billboards with exagerated perspectives. All the elements in his work build upon themselves to make a possible blueprint for an impossible architectural structure. At the base of the drawing is a series of boxes, creating a grid upon which larger objects all pile on top of each other, sharing supports to create a singular object on the page. Kelly then erases most of the drawing leaving behind the faint impression of (im)possibility. Kelly’s work is currently on exhibition in New York in “Painted World” at P.S. 1.

In the work of San Francisco-based artist Will Yackulic, a network of text and buildings forms the constituents of a post-natural landscape. Yackulic’s “It Takes Ice to Cut Ice” is a series of gouache paintings on paper; each composition is constructed of small, blue and white cubes that make up the building blocks of a digital, imagined architecture. Yackulic’s geometric topographies on paper, sprinkled with background text, demonstrate how complicated forms and ideas can arise from rudimentary materials. Yackulic exhibits with Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco.

Sebastian Lemm is a photo-based artist working to uncover what is not immediately visible. Inpiration for his imagery comes from popular theories of physics: for example the string theory which describes the existance of multiple dimensions and parallel unverses outside of our perception. Lemm describes his “traveler II” series as “a meditation of parallel worlds and the boundaries between them. These images of similar topographies, separated by an almost imperceptible barrier, allude to connections that exist within a collective whole.” Lemm has exhibited his work in several group shows in the US and Germany. His work was selected by jurors Cindy Sherman and Jack Pierson for inclusion in “Unframed First Look,” at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York.

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