Julian Lorber

et al Projects is excited to present new artwork by Julian Lorber. This is Lorbers second solo exhibition with the gallery and will mark the second anniversary of the gallerys new location in Bushwick with Lorbers vivid works that include a multidisciplinary display of paintings, photography, and sculpture. Coming off his recent solo exhibition in Europe this past February, which was titled Externalities, Julian Lorbers exhibition at et al Projects is untitled and continues this momentum with a display of his ability and drive to create intriguing, dynamic art.

Lorber has created works from observing the visual effects of urban soot on architecture and interiors and the paint build-up from graffiti writing and outdoor mural painting. Other sources for his works include makeup and automotive spray coating. What these materials and applications are actually adding to the language of painting is part of what the artist is interested in showing us. His process of mixed media layering is what he considers as creating his own architecture of pollution. The artist has also included window soot into some of the works as a material metaphor. Moving towards the surface, the artist intensifies the viewing experience with color shading and has an illusory balance of surface and depth. Thinking about economics and the growth of industry and its effects on our culture, Lorber asks questions about a system that is a disconnect between the society in which we live and the natural world that the system relies on. Subverting material hierarchies and confronting the negative and positive externalities around him, Lorber presents his art as a science fiction, and puts the urban environment as the driving force behind human visual experience.

May 17 thru June 17, 2013
Opening Reception: May 17, 7pm-10pm
Artist Talk: June 16, 12pm

Julian Lorber is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He studied at the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston. He produces art using paint, drawing, collage, video, sculpture and installation art and has exhibited internationally. He has been interviewed in NY Arts Magazine, Frontrunner Magazine and LVL3. His works have been featured in Whitehot Magazine, Arte- Fuse and Studio Visit Magazine, curated by Ian Berry, Senior Director at the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College.

Alli Miller + Trey Burns | Wessel Castle

“In the situation of supermodernity, part of this exterior is made of non-places, and parts of the non-places are made of images.” (Marc Auge, Non Places: An Anthropology to Supermodernity)

et al projects is pleased to present Wessel Castle, an exhibition from the archives of Alli Miller and Trey Burns.

A portmanteau of Tom Wesselmann and White Castle, “Wessel Castle” is an ongoing collaborative archive from the artists travels and commutes into the megatexture of the American landscape. With a nod to the legacy of pop art and culture jamming, Alli Miller and Trey Burns examine sign culture within the grammar of public space through the framing of that which is liminal, hyperbolic, and humorous. Through the act of collection, they create typologies in order to explore their possibilities.

This selection of photographs features the often anemic and neglected signscapes on the peripheries of American highways. Collectively, these image-objects stand as monument to the ferment of message, appearing mutant in contrast to the inconspicuous massage of advertisement.

In turn, sculptural works draw parallel between commercial display and the gallery as a space for appraisal. As site, sign and pedestal, wall and fixture, share a tendency to mimic the “lived spaces” of the real in order to create new, often perverse, meaning. These hybridized forms invert the conceit of muséal display with the improvised style present in local and handmade signage and impoverished materials of retail devices.

On view April 12 – May 12, 2013

opening reception Friday April 12, 7-10pm

Alli Miller (b. 1985) holds a BFA from Cooper Union and is an MFA candidate at the University of Southern California. Alli’s work is premised on the investigation of liminal moments to underscore the psychosexual and relational aspects of display and consumerism. As material, she utilizes voices and powers surrounding the artwork: for example, the pedestal, the ad space, the archive.

Trey Burns (b. 1984) holds an MFA in Painting & New Media from Savannah College of Art & Design. Interested in reportage and documentation, his work has explored concepts of Americana through video and photography. Trey’s work has been exhibited internationally and is currently working on several multi-media collaborations.

Tim Zercie | A Family Conjuration – March 7 thru April 7, 2013

Press Release
opening reception: Saturday March 9th, 6pm – 10pm ( B U S H W I C K A R M O R Y N I G H T )
on view: March 7th, 2013 – April 7th, 2013