Where 1

<p><em><strong>Where 1</strong></em><br /> October 26 – December 4, 2013</p> <p>Where is pleased to announce <em>Where 1</em>, the inaugural exhibition and grand opening of this semi-public, high-security shipping container and publishing project in Brooklyn, NY. <em>Where 1</em> features sculptures by Lea Cetera, Jesse Greenberg, and Alexandra Lerman, with a video trailer by Ted Sefcik. The related publication, also entitled <em>Where 1</em>, contains essays by Brian Arthur and Carlos Castellanos. This book will be released at the opening reception, Friday Oct 25th 7–10 pm and is also available for purchase online.</p> <p>The exhibition will be viewable 24/7 via live-stream feed online for the duration of the show.</p> <p>Where is grounded in the assertion that art and its discourse manifest the patterns, behaviors, and properties present in all complex informational systems, and that the mechanisms which produce change and growth in these systems can be applied directly to the field of artistic production vis-à-vis the exhibition format.</p> <p>This first test, <em>Where 1</em>, will focus on the particular feature of complex systems that coalescences autonomous, unrelated agents, stripping some of their independent qualities but resulting in the emergence of a new, more complex form with new affordances. <em>Where 1</em> stages this experiment through an exhibition that combines the discrete works of three independent sculptors, held together by gravity and sculptural syntax as a single quasi-object.</p> <p>Greenberg’s rich and colorful practice explores non-representation through expertly cast resin and plastic forms. His work <em>Growth Brick (Black)</em> hangs in precarious balance with unfired clay tablets from Lerman’s <em>Release</em> series. Lerman’s works are deeply rooted in a conceptual discourse on legibility, gesture, authorship and the proprietary touch-screen swipe movements the iPhone. These disparate pieces are forced into equivalence by a balance beam, the central element of <em>Onyx</em> from Lea Cetera’s Relationships series. Here the casual, delicate architecture of formica, ocean stones, styrofoam, acrylic and steel point fun at the legacy of minimal sculpture and even the notion of stable forms. <em>Onyx</em> performs the action of a cosmological equals sign, providing the tissue which holds this sculptural organism, and in fact the entire exhibition, together.</p>