LISA KRIVACKA, Almost Utopia 26 June - 8 August 2008. Opening: Thursday, June 26, 6-8pm Frederieke Taylor Gallery is pleased to present Lisa Krivacka's new body of work titled Almost Utopia, consisting of brightly colored paintings of architecture, interior spaces, and landscapes. Using postcards she has collected, as well as found snapshots, design books, and magazines from the 1960's and 70's as inspiration, the paintings take on a surreal quality of the American landscape from that time period. As the artist states: "It began with a postcard of the Monsanto House of the Future at Disneyland. The attraction opened in 1957 and offered a tour of a futuristic house, set in the year 1986. Of course, it was wildly optimistic and futuristic looking—and not at all what living looked like in the late 1980's. In the end, the Monsanto house was destroyed in 1967. This postcard made me aware of a trend that was occurring in American design, attitude and culture, particularly during the 1960's and 1970's, which was a push towards the modern, contemporary or futuristic-even the more banal and mundane, such as municipal buildings and motels, tried to appear progressive. I've noticed a similar trend in the 21st century towards the futuristic and the utopic in the proliferation of magazines and articles that are geared towards future living, whether it is in the form of living green for environmental purposes or in the form of quirky looking architecture. Through painting these seemingly idyllic images, I am exploring different notions of utopia." This is Lisa Krivacka's first solo show at Frederieke Taylor Gallery. Lisa Krivacka, originally from Tennessee, received her BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago. She has been in several group exhibitions in New York and surrounding areas including The Katonah Museum. Her work has been reviewed in numerous publications including The New York Times, TimeOut NY, and The Chicago Sun Times. In the Project Room, an installation by Christine Sciulli, Intercepting Planes, June 26 – August 8, 2008. Opening Reception: Thursday, June 26, 6-8pm. Christine Sciulli's work creates a dialogue between a projection and its transformation, challenging the perception of seemingly simple geometries. Intercepting Planes addresses the projection of a straight line. The interception of straight roving lines of light generates relationships which create a dynamic three-dimensional mapping of a straight line as it becomes unraveled and fluidly recast in space. The random filtering network stretched through the gallery references passageways of information from biological neural networks to cyberspace. Surrounding the viewer, traveling points of light appear capricious and arbitrary, providing a foil to their origin: the straight as it is ephemerally redrawn within space. In January 2008, Christine Sciulli had her second solo show with Ch'i Contemporary Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY. She has completed numerous outdoor video and light installations in public locations in and around New York. Sciulli has an Architectural Engineering degree from Penn State University and an MFA from Hunter College, NY. Summer Hours: July – August 8: Tues-Fri, 11-6pm Gallery closed August 9, Re-opening September 2 Next exhibition: Eduardo Navarro, opening Tuesday September 9 For further information and visuals, please contact the gallery. Home | Exhibitions | Artists | Contacts