Downtown, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition
Slippery When Wet
GaitBjorn Copeland Kim Garcia Manny Krakowski Clare Little George Sanders Noah Spindler GAIT is pleased to present Slippery When Wet. Slippery When Wet features sculpture and mixed media work by artists using a juxtaposition of materials which result in innovative and novel visual relationships. In her essay of the same title1, the artist Jenalee Harmon examines the physicality of the art making process through the metaphor of soap. In the same way the artist’s hand pulls together disparate materials, the ritual act of using a bar of soap to cleanse oneself every day incrementally adjusts its shape and size. Soap, itself, is a mixture of materials stirred together to create: a cleansing agent, a lubricant, a thickener. Similar to this alchemical process, the works in this exhibition materialize this sensation of contact in an extremely satisfying way. Bjorn Copeland transforms found objects with layered histories into assemblage sculptures that flirt with visual promiscuity. University of California, Irvine MFA Candidate, Kim Garcia incorporates video into her object-based practice, allowing a looped non-hierarchical viewing experience. In his sculpture Circle, 2016, Manny Krakowski penetrates a compact refrigerator with a circle of copper piping, creating condensation, which collects and drips onto itself. Engaging with American middle class decor, Clare Little strategically applies paint to portions of prefabricated decorative rugs, resulting in a literal white wash. George Sanders’s sculptures address the formal qualities of structures that traditionally act as support systems. Interested in how architecture can physically and psychologically alter spaces, Noah Spindler will construct a new sculpture from his lighthouse series for the exhibition, which will illuminate the space with a rotating beacon of light. GAIT is a rooftop project space dedicated to presenting artistic projects emphasizing experimentation and site-specificity in Los Angeles, California.