as-built/as-made
01.28–02.20/22
Adriana Furlong /Calliope Pavlides
Chris Lloyd /Dan Mandelbaum
Jonah Schwimmer /Zack Rafuls
Opening reception: January 28, Friday, 6–9 pm
Gallery hours: Friday–Sunday, 1–7 pm
Undercurrent is pleased to present as-built/as-made which brings together the work of Adriana Furlong, Calliope Pavlides, Chris Lloyd, Dan Mandelbaum, Jonah Schwimmer, and Zack Rafuls. The artists play with an alchemy of material both real and imagined, mining the interval between material stability and impermanence. Tampered and reductive surfaces become generative, giving way to surfaces in a constant state of flux. Vying for visual hierarchy, the overlaps engender new spaces.
Like the work of a surveyor, who notates the margins.
A construction and a way to build. Were we all architects in an endless field?
The revealing of a memory.
Things often fold together into one. Fragmentary at the seams or hinged together.
The cold-weather wind moves urban debris like leaves; it collects in corners and in margins. When we touch something, it touches us back. Grinding dust down to the base, we sculpt it vertical again, a future ruin;
Getting down to it, Like taking a rubbing.
An excavation of a future loss
Not necessary to pinpoint the start or the point of completion.
Getting right to it: What remains is what remains.
Curated by Shayna Miller
→ Adriana Furlong (b. Berkeley, CA) works in the ground between vernacular and notational history to excavate those residual memories, bodies and narratives that have been forgotten, lost and buried. Furlong’s work has been included in several group exhibitions in New York and recently in Miami. Her work has been reviewed by both Musee Magazine, and Teeth Magazine. Her writing is published at The Brooklyn Rail and Dovetail Magazine. Presented in this exhibition are Furlong’s works that meld concrete with archival blueprints.
Adriana Furlong Untitled, 2022, 18”x24”, hand cast cement tiles, archival blueprints, copper dust (oxidized) on dry-wall
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→ Calliope Pavlides (b. Athens, Greece) is a Greek artist currently based in Los Angeles, California. She is a recent graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design where she received her BFA in Painting in 2020 and was awarded the Florence Leif award of excellence. Pavlides’ current solo exhibition at Harkawik, titled Generator, runs concurrently with this exhibition. Pavlides’ narrative works encapsulate dramatic memory, often using the figure as a vessel for such recollection.
Calliope Pavlides Babyproofing, 2020, 36”x48”, oil on canvas
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→ Chris Lloyd (b. 1994, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is a multimedia artist and photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. Previous exhibitions include “ Two Birds, One stone “ with Sara Yukiko Mon at Gern en regalia. He plays with themes of nostalgia and personal narrative by manipulating and layering found material.
Chris Lloyd, when death embraces life, 2021, 11 x 17", ballpoint pen over watercolor on archival water color paper
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→ Dan Mandelbaum (b. New York, NY) is a Brooklyn based artist who graduated from Pratt Institute in 2016. Mandelbaum works with ceramic and creates his own devices to create marks in the clay surface, combining power tools with stamps and other objects.
Dan Mandelbaum Tiles 1, 2022, 32” x 26”, ceramic mounted on plywood
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→ Jonah Schwimmer (b. Denver, CO) is an artist based in New York City. His practice combines drawing and printing to explore personal conceptions of community, recreation and utopia.
Jonah Schwimmer Spirit desire (4), 2021, 14” x 11”, colored pencil, pen, gouache, tape, acrylic medium, paper on canvas
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→ Zack Rafuls (b. 1992, Miami, FL) is an artist and curator currently living in New York City. He received his BFA from Watkins College of Art, Design, & Film in Nashville, TN in 2015, and in Fall 2014 studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as a participant in the AI-CAD Mobility Program. Rafuls’ drawings and decoys (constructions) in this exhibition are referential, being diaristic.
Zack Rafuls, Wisdom Totem, 2018, mixed media
