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| Saturday, November 22, 2008 | |
| 7:00pm - 11:00pm | |
| The Happy Collaborationists Gallery Space | |
| 1254 N. Noble | |
| Chicago, IL |
Featuring work by Dain Oh, Chris Collins, Wendy Spacek & Ilia Ovechkin
Curated by Dain Oh & Nate Hitchcock
Boxxblog, founded by Dain Oh investigates the many permutations of the square, the cube, the pixel and the grid. Through a series of collected images and links she displays the abstract, the representational, the imaginative and the creative.
"The cube is a Platonic solid, also called the regular hexahedron. The term is derived from Plato's notion of a regular solid out of four classical elements: earth, air, water and fire. The metaphorical conception of an infinite line connecting nature is extremely beautiful; it is the celebratory painting of the beginning of human logic. A box functions as a tabla rasa by taking the form as a symbolic and physical container to absorb and/or mimic the containing object. Its utopic and minimal simplicity is also open to intricate physical and emotional complexity and can create infinite amount of elaborate patterns and structures. It is the ultimate metaphor and it is ubiquitous. However, its existence is so modest and tranquil that we often do not recognize living within a box. It is a child of mother nature and something that we continue to struggle with; we are constantly trying to be "outside the box." Before this perilous revolution, we must understand and appreciate its symbiotic nature with humans."
Dain Oh, 2008
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