'Disrupture' 3 person group show January 7, 2012

Exhibit Jan 7, 2012 - Feb 17, 2012; Opening reception Saturday, Jan 7, 6-10pm

icTus Gallery is pleased to present Disrupture, a collection of multimedia installations by C. Ree, Heather Sparks and Jenifer K. Wofford. Please join us on Saturday January 7th, from 6-10pm for the exhibition opening. In the wake of Arab Spring and its waves of revolt, and Occupy movements in every corner of the country, the topic of political disruption has hopefully entered our daily dialogue. The artists in Disrupture take the conversation further, disfiguring the very spaces in which we live, upsetting the cherished ritual of shopping and depicting the greatest ruptures of all: the explosive volcano.

By inflecting everyday spaces with both specters of past trauma and a troubling presence which resists the rational, C. Ree's Overhead explores the monstrous underbelly of modernism and the heroic, and our shifting presence among these spaces. She uses suspended ceiling components often found in mass produced spaces - both commercial and domestic - and intersects these with fibrous tiles which will sag over time. C. Ree filmed an accompanying video, Aimless Bullet, which documents a large-scale ceiling's complete destruction, single-handedly sabotaged by an unknown figure.
Collectively disrupting the popular practice of luxury shopping, Heather Sparks established "The Big Return" project. In the spirit of the fashion industry, Sparks invited others to join her in binging, purging, shopping and returning as an exploration of desire and consumption. The repetitive actions of shopping and returning were documented in photos, posted on the Capitalism is Over! If You Want It website and captured via social media vehicles, further sharing the meditation on consumption and desire.

Moving from the disrupture of the material realm to one of the natural realm, Jenifer K. Wofford focuses her sights on rendering active volcanoes in watercolor and ink. Less foreboding than playful, the colorful plumes flow over the edges of the paper.

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