Electronic Sculpture: Recent work by Andrew Kleindolph

Thu, Feb 9
7:00pm-10pm
FREE

From February 9 - March 11, 2006, Rx Gallery features recent work by
San Francisco artist, Andrew Kleindolph. The exhibition opens on
Thursday, February 9th from 7PM to 10PM with a reception for the
artist and entertainment provided by blasthaus.


Kleindolph's meticulously crafted sculptures incorporate both found
and fabricated mechanical parts along with custom electronics to
arrive at intricate systems which explore the interface of humans and
machines. Taking cues from surrealism, electronic and organic
systems, household accessories, and garage inventions, the artist
uses a low-tech vocabulary to engage us in playful interactivity
where we become part of the process.

The artist's intentionally illogical and curiously frustrating
interactive sculptures lure us into intricately woven narratives. At
first glance, the works confuse the user with shiny buttons, LED
displays, knobs, switches, and blinking lights. Ultimately, the user
finds himself reaching around the lack of structure for clarity, only
to realize that it's the reaching that makes the lack of structure
redemptive. Acknowledging Duchamp's readymades which heralded the
final statement about the "disapperance of the object" in art,
Kleindolph examines the notion of art existing instead within this
threshold of interactivity and offers us a "user-experience" which
becomes the "form" itself.

Complimenting his three-dimensional works, the artist will also
exhibit recent "digital drawings," which echo the same "form" and (il)
logic of play found in his sculptures. Kleindolph's fanciful original
drawings reiterate an interest in the intersection of the organic and
the electronic. These works relate to his sculptures as imaginary
operational diagrams or psychedelic electronic schematics. Loosely
developed scientific detritus conspire with precise geometric
iconography and organic digitalis to simultaneously emphasize and
transcend the digital medium.

Venue:

Rx Gallery
132 Eddy St (at Mason)
San Francisco
415 474 7973
http://www.rxgallery.com

Additional Info:

415 474 7973
http://www.rxgallery.com