Sheree Hovsepian & Konrad Wyrebek : The Whole Other

8 May-6 Jun 2015

Overview

At first glance, Sheree Hovsepian and Konrad Wyrebek seem to share little in common. Yet, both teeter along a fine line dividing digital interpretation and modern reality, pushing traditional art forms into a contemporary context. While Hovsepian’s three-dimensional sculptural works play with dimension and the human eye by manipulating mediums such as photography, photograms and quotidian objects to create conceptual interpretations, ‘data error’ paintings experiment with extreme pixilation, representing the dissemination and malleability of information through digital and social media and challenging pop culture via abstracted television-, film- and social media-based images. In The Whole Other (8th of May – 6th of June 2015), the gallery becomes a liminal space, its walls blank canvases for the reconsideration and expression of the blurred boundary between chaos and control; to gallery founder and head curator Kristin Hjellegjerde, Hovsepian and Wyrebek’s works “‘smell’ of the new, of the future”...