Contemplating Apocalypse

Images from the exhibition "Contemplating Apocalypse" at the Brewery Project, September 9 - October 8, 2006. Opening Reception is September 9.

Contemplating Apocalypse is a presentation of nine artists working together to address the tremendous variety and wealth of concepts surrounding the larger concept of apocalypse.

Edith Abetya – is an artist with one foot in the world of installation art and the other in the realm of traditional crafts. She will be building a post-apocalyptic domicile of found materials, industrial products and garbage for gallery visitors to temporarily inhabit. In this project she will be assisted by London clothing designers Sue Bamford and Allyson Shaw who will be creating clothing for the imaginary resident(s) of the house.

Marshall Astor – is a conceptual artist and curator. His works are based on his own personal fixations and fantasies about things that “should happen” or that “need to be made”. For this project he will be constructing an installation environment that simultaneously references contemporary post-apocalypse narratives and art history, while indulging his own post-apocalyptic fantasies.

Sue Bamford - Sue Bamford is London based textile artist and designer reinventing historical garment construction with reclaimed materials. She will be contributing garments and objects to Edith Abeyta’s installation.

John Michael Gill – is a painter and ceramist; his work often touches on religious or biblical subjects. He will be addressing and depicting the Christian Book of Revelations apocalypse through a series of paintings and objects.

Alex Lilly – is a Portland, Oregon based activist and artist. Alex has been painting large un-stretched canvases of American military vehicles in Iraq on fire or in the process of their destruction since 2005, several of which will be in the exhibition.

Adrian de la Pena – is the creator/author of a personal science fiction narrative called Netsuke, which contains several apocalyptic themes. His body of work consists of artifacts relevant to that narrative which he will be constructing an environment of and for in this project.

Allyson Shaw – is a novelist, poet and knitter from Los Angeles, currently living in London. She will be contributing clothing and objects to Edith Abeyta’s installation.

Porous Walker – is a Napa, California based cartoonist and sculptor. His projects use everyday objects in humorous contexts to point out the simple absurdity of many of our commonly held beliefs.

Meeson Pae Yang – is a sculptor and installation artist. Her body of work references the human body and the systems that it contains. For this project she will be constructing an installation that addresses the personal apocalypse that pushed her into art making.

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items are from between 29 Aug 2006 & 07 Sep 2006.