Akiyuki Ina: Emitting Evanescent Beauty

Feb. 16th – Mar. 6th
Opening Reception: Feb. 20th, 7-10pm

left: “Empty Attention” I, tape, light and paint on wood, 96x 36x 36″
right: “New Ruin”, photograph, 25 x 14 x 2″

Due to the mortgage crisis of 2007, there is a preponderance of buildings whose construction has been indefinitely halted. Inspired by these ghostly structures, Ina has created an installation at OPEN SOURCE GALLERY that communicates his admiration for the strange beauty and evanescent nature of this unfolding process. These works utilize elements such as safety net coverings and lighted panels to recreate the fleeting clarity of these abandoned “monuments”.

*Three dimension works will be exhibited along with documentary
photographs taken from 2008 to the present.

on view now

09.04.-09.30.2010 Opening: Saturday 09.04.2010 7-10pm In September 2010, Peter will be showing a new series of large-scale photographs at Open Source Gallery based on a site-specific installation of his “Trainset Ghetto” sets on the street in front of the gallery storefront space. The images will feature increasingly bizarre and phantasmagorical juxtapositions of time, scale, and [...]

upcoming

ORFI NYC: LIVE GIG 2010
Nobuko: wa
Pirmin Hagen: First

past

Images NYC
make Soap Box Racers for the Soap Box Derby
ONE BIG WINDMILL
Open Source Residency w/Austrian Artists
Patricia Watwood: Portraits 20/10
Cornucopias: Paintings by Rachel Youens
Ondrej Brody & Kristofer Paetau: Wang Bin Torture in Commercial Quality, High Quality and Museum Quality
Akiyuki Ina: Emitting Evanescent Beauty
John Coburn: Fairlane Marauder
Soup Kitchen 12.1 – 12.24