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Currently on exhibit until March 28th 2004
Jeff Hoppa, Erica Mappa and Yoko Motomiya, inculcate technological curiosity into their artworks, transforming their experiences, ranging from meditative drawings to geometric formations and organic arrangements.
Jeff Hoppa’s explorations of land (on the moon) themes are sometimes abstract, sometimes representational in manner. He uses traditional materials such as paint and graphite to envision moonscapes. These methods are paradoxical considering the processes implemented in providing him with lunar topographical information.
Erica Mapp’s printed sculptures are part of an evolutionary process that begins with working drawings generated by a playful application of Fibonacci numbers, an arithmetic sequence which approximates growth spirals found in nature. Ms. Mapp finds correlations among abstraction’s themes to water’s changing reflective patterns, shifting lights and shadows produced by sun and shade, and the verticals and horizontals used not as abstractions from nature but as a way to codify and replicate relationships found in natural landscapes.
Yoko Motomiya’s work, Music: Out of the Cell, strives to spatially create a new world through modular processes. Walls, corners and floors support organically shaped, silk screen plexiglass and plastic sheet components (parts of which can be stuffed). Elements are arranged in groups on the specified surfaces. Strewn throughout the environment these clusters relate in such a way as to evoke conversations or rhythms in music
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