PAssAGE 3:
ELISE FERGUSON - PLAZA
In her works, at the intersection of painting, sculpture and printmaking, Elise Ferguson gives equal weight to the pleasures of creating something resolutely optical – concentric circles, radiating grids and undulating patterns. The artist combines pattern and colour to explore space and perception, usually working with a combination of pigmented plaster and ink on MDF panels. For PAssAGE 3, Elise remains true to the process but then photographs the work to be displayed publicly in Athens.
Ferguson (Richmond, Virginia, lives and works in Brooklyn, NY) has had solo exhibitions with Halsey McKay Gallery, White Columns, Envoy Enterprises, New York and at Illinois State University. Her works have been included in exhibitions at Luhring Augustine, Team Gallery, Dieu Donne Papermill, The Sculpture Center, Andrew Kreps, and CRG Gallery, New York; Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, Norwich Galllery, England, Lothringer Dreizen, Munich, amongst others.
Plaza is shown on the huge windows of Daedalus Street’s studio on its namesake Daedalidon. Another installation by American photographer Lucas Blalock, PAssAGE 4: Figures II is on view on the edge of the ancient city walls, at the corner of Kydantidon & Kallisthenous, Ano Petralona 118 51.
Both artists have developed a site specific work for each building’s facade, viewable 24/7, maintaining the ongoing commitment of The Eye Sees to making great art available, free, to as many people as possible. The same principle is shared by Daedalus Street, the studio project of artists Rowena Hughes and Athanasios Argianas who are inviting friends and colleagues to work in Athens, experimenting within the fabric of the city and engaging with its energy. Daedalus Street is funded through the generosity of patrons, grants and through selling artist editions.
PAssAGE 4:
LUCAS BLALOCK - FIGURES II
Lucas Blalock (Asheville, North Carolina, lives and works in New York) is interested in revealing the process behind photographic images. He pursues this through a variety of overlapping strategies (often involving Photoshop which he uses to emphasise the edit rather than perfect an image ) that in some way alienate the “natural” view generally associated with photographic pictures. His practice involves photographing objects that “ have something pathetic about them” as he once said. First shot with a large format camera on film, his images are then scanned and digitally altered.
Blalock’s pictures have been included in recent exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the the Walker Art Center, the Hammer Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has made a number of artist books including Towards a Warm Math (Hassla, 2011), Windows Mirrors Tabletops (Morel, 2013), Inside the White Cub (Peradam, 2014) and SPBH Subscription Series Vol. IIV (Self Publish Be Happy, 2014). Blalock is also active as a writer and has published in a number of periodicals including Aperture, Foam and Mousse.
A second installation by American artist Elise Ferguson, PAssAGE 3: Plaza is on view on the facade of Daedalidon 3, Kato Petralona 118 53.
Both artists have developed a site specific work for each building’s facade, viewable 24/7, maintaining the ongoing commitment of The Eye Sees to making great art available, free, to as many people as possible. The same principle is shared by Daedalus Street, the studio project of artists Rowena Hughes and Athanasios Argianas who are inviting friends and colleagues to work in Athens, experimenting within the fabric of the city and engaging with its energy. Daedalus Street is funded through the generosity of patrons, grants and through selling artist editions.
Thanks to Anastasios Kavassis for Lucas Blalock's installation