Who Made Who is a solo exhibition of sculptural work and drawings by Erik Guzman. Guzman unveils at The Front Room Gallery (147 Roebling Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York) an impressive body of new work that is a realization of artifacts and ideas from a self-composed mythology. Kinetic, light emanating sculptural work paired with delicately detailed etched glass drawings, illustrate Guzman's mythos of the machine. Featured in this exhibition are three sculptural works which incorporate dazzling light, polished aluminum and plexiglass; activated by the presence of a viewer, rhythmic light patterns consume the architecture of the gallery as spinning wheels cast long swirling shadows across the floor and onto the walls, that gradually form, take over the space and then subside.
The accompanying etched glass plates exemplify Guzman's aesthetic, which combines graphic icons, church architecture and components from Japanese patterns and temples. Guzman's ethereal etched glass panels exist in the minute space fractions of an inch from the wall. The etching is transparent, the glass all but invisible, but the fine lines cast unearthly graphic imagery onto the wall, the drawing is made from the diffusion of light, sharp lines defined from shadow.
ERIK GUZMAN has been active as an artist in Williamsburg, for 9 years. Among many professional accomplishments are his LMCC GAPS grant award, Cue Foundation residency, LMCC space grant, a Joan Mitchell nomination. He has exhibited nationally at Smack Mellon, El Museo Del Barrio (S Files), Front Room Gallery, Soap Factory, Hillwood Museum, Dumbo Art Festival, The Kitchen, Exit Art, St. Marks Church Gallery. International exposure includes shows at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, El museo de arte de Caguas, El Museo de Las Americas, Gallery Tezz, Tokyo, Japan. Erik Guzman is also a founder of Goliath visual space, a nonprofit artist run organization, which has served as both protagonist and presenter of emerging artist since 1998.
ERIK GUZMAN
Who Made Who
The Front Room Gallery
September 12 - October 19, 2008
Previous Exhibition at The Front Room Gallery : Summer Sampler Group Exhibition
