In All Disorder, A Secret Order
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LIA HALLORAN & COLLIDER PROJECTS
In All Disorder, A Secret Order
February 19 – March 26, 2011
Opening Reception:
February 19, 6 to 8 PM
COLLIDER is the collaborative team of LA-based artist, Lia Halloran and Sarah Strauss of BigProtype Architecture in Brooklyn. Both artists use this opportunity to push beyond the normal parameters of their practices and challenge each other to play and experiment. Introduced in graduate school at Yale University in 1999, (Folding Unfolding) is the result of their conversations exploring energy and gravity, form and order, lesbians and skateboarding and, most recently, the Cave of the Crystal Giants in Mexico and the molecular organization of crystals.
Expanding upon Halloran’s The Only Way Out is Through, a series of crystal landscape paintings based on the Naica Mine in Chihuahua, COLLDIER researched the molecular structures and physical formations of different crystals. Developing 3D digital models to understand the complex geometries at work, they discovered crystals are highly ordered and repetitive; yet the formations themselves are largely influenced by their environment yielding organic, non-repetitive clusters. Utilizing cutting-edge 3D modeling technologies and advanced laser cutters, COLLDIER has replicated the forms of crystals (borax, gypsum, neptunite and quartz). Fabricated from Ultralight®, crystals stand 4 to 6 feet tall; yet weigh only 40 to 70 pounds. The pristine surface, rock-solid form and ambiguity of material creates tension between experience and analysis and provides a meditation on the forces of weight, mass, gravity and space.
Lia Halloran is a painter, photographer and Professor of Fine Art at Chapman University who lives and works in Los Angeles. Halloran is a 2001 MFA graduate of the Yale University School of Art and a 1999 BFA graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and has had exhibitions in Los Angeles at Sandroni Rey Gallery, The Torrance Art Museum, Otis Ben Maltz Gallery, Mark Moore Gallery and DCKT Contemporary in New York, La Montagne Gallery in Boston, and Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, Ohio and The Speyer Family Collection, New York.
Sarah Strauss currently teaches Ornament and Decoration at Parsons School of Design SCE. She received her Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture in 2002 and her B.A. in Art History, Fine Arts and Chemistry from Duke University. In 2004 she co-founded Bigprototype, a Brooklyn-based design firm and fabrication lab. Bigprototype is a tactile practice that operates at the intersection of design and building, occupying a territory that enables a new role in the design discipline.
Blythe Projects is located at 5797 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California 90232. For more information please contact Hillary Metz at 323.272.3642 hillary@blytheprojects.net.
In All Disorder, A Secret Order
February 19 – March 26, 2011
Opening Reception:
February 19, 6 to 8 PM
COLLIDER is the collaborative team of LA-based artist, Lia Halloran and Sarah Strauss of BigProtype Architecture in Brooklyn. Both artists use this opportunity to push beyond the normal parameters of their practices and challenge each other to play and experiment. Introduced in graduate school at Yale University in 1999, (Folding Unfolding) is the result of their conversations exploring energy and gravity, form and order, lesbians and skateboarding and, most recently, the Cave of the Crystal Giants in Mexico and the molecular organization of crystals.
Expanding upon Halloran’s The Only Way Out is Through, a series of crystal landscape paintings based on the Naica Mine in Chihuahua, COLLDIER researched the molecular structures and physical formations of different crystals. Developing 3D digital models to understand the complex geometries at work, they discovered crystals are highly ordered and repetitive; yet the formations themselves are largely influenced by their environment yielding organic, non-repetitive clusters. Utilizing cutting-edge 3D modeling technologies and advanced laser cutters, COLLDIER has replicated the forms of crystals (borax, gypsum, neptunite and quartz). Fabricated from Ultralight®, crystals stand 4 to 6 feet tall; yet weigh only 40 to 70 pounds. The pristine surface, rock-solid form and ambiguity of material creates tension between experience and analysis and provides a meditation on the forces of weight, mass, gravity and space.
Lia Halloran is a painter, photographer and Professor of Fine Art at Chapman University who lives and works in Los Angeles. Halloran is a 2001 MFA graduate of the Yale University School of Art and a 1999 BFA graduate of the University of California, Los Angeles and has had exhibitions in Los Angeles at Sandroni Rey Gallery, The Torrance Art Museum, Otis Ben Maltz Gallery, Mark Moore Gallery and DCKT Contemporary in New York, La Montagne Gallery in Boston, and Fredric Snitzer Gallery in Miami. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York, The Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, Ohio and The Speyer Family Collection, New York.
Sarah Strauss currently teaches Ornament and Decoration at Parsons School of Design SCE. She received her Master of Architecture from the Yale School of Architecture in 2002 and her B.A. in Art History, Fine Arts and Chemistry from Duke University. In 2004 she co-founded Bigprototype, a Brooklyn-based design firm and fabrication lab. Bigprototype is a tactile practice that operates at the intersection of design and building, occupying a territory that enables a new role in the design discipline.
Blythe Projects is located at 5797 Washington Boulevard, Culver City, California 90232. For more information please contact Hillary Metz at 323.272.3642 hillary@blytheprojects.net.
