Beaker

Kirk Lang, Nola Avienne, and Jana Brevick

September 1st–October 2nd, 2010

Opening reception Thursday, September 2, 6–8pm

Artist talk September 4, 2–3pm

Kirk Lang, Nola Avienne and Jana Brevick experiment with work that is phenomenologically open and elicits a visceral response. Their investigations in the chemistries of the body, kinetic instrumentation and tiny universes explore not only the result of a creative process, but the creative process itself.

Working with fundamental materials integral to life, iron, salt and blood, Nola Avienne takes a formalistic approach to chaos by intuitively applying scientific methodologies to record personal observations and theories.

Experimental Interactionist Jana Brevick plays with tools, diagrams and systems that harness obsolete technologies and accidental cartologies to create material driven objects through the manipulation of scale and dimension.

In an attempt to blend the practices of both science and kineticism, Kirk Lang explores the history of scientific instrumentation and submits his findings in the form of interactive, found-object sculptures.

Press for Beaker:

So Much Local Art It Hurts: Fourteen–14!–Shows (#4)

Article by Jen Graves. The Stranger's SLOG, September 2010

September in the Backspace: Jennifer Zwick: Partum

When she became pregnant, Jennifer Zwick stopped taking photographs and started making drawings and paintings. This has inspired her to mine the archives and group together all past works in these media.

The show is grouped by pre-pregnancy, first trimester, second trimester (anemic), and third trimester.