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SPACES presents installations by artists Carolin Marquart and Ann Marie Lanesey as part of its SPACELab program. SPACELab focuses on smaller, experimental and timely projects. Applications are reviewed year round by a working committee of artists. It all depends on perspective, right? From January 9 - 30, Akron artist Carolin Marquart invites viewers to visually dissect her bedroom-sized fictional narrative, Much Easier to Love with the Lights Off. Household boxes, paper cutouts, and foam are Marquart's building blocks, from which she constructs a complex, yet intimate environment. Starting from the inside out, the artist begins by fabricating intricate mini-environments inside household boxes, then continues by assembling the boxes into loose systems of clusters, which eventually cover the walls of a room. Individually, each box tells a small story while the collective chorus of colors, shapes and textures swells to create a visual opera. From macro to micro, it all depends on how you look at it. From February 3 - 20, Ann Marie Lanesey (Albany, NY) introduces gallery visitors to The Joy of Lying Down in Other People's Back Yards. Lanesey's interactive multi-media installation includes a miniature fenced-in plot of backyard grass -- complete with white picket fence -- and a video showing her public performances of lying down in almost 60 different back yards. Inspired by personal anxiety from America's current war on terrorism, Lanesey's post 9/11 work raises questions of land ownership, and seeks to relieve a distressed consciousness. With Woodie Guthrie humming in Lanesey's head, "This land is your land, this land is my land…", she asks viewers to lie down, contemplate, and complete her piece. SPACES is a non-profit, artist-run, alternative space gallery. Since 1978, SPACES has given over 7,500 artists in the visual and performing arts an arena in which to present challenging new ideas. SPACES is located at 2220 Superior Viaduct on the West side of the Flats. Superior Viaduct runs parallel to the Detroit Superior Bridge at the intersection of West 25th Street. |
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