U:L:O: Part II | O: Curated by 99¢ Plus

at INTERSTATE Gallery

 

Age of Aquarius

 

July 17 – August 2, 2015

 

Priscilla Jeong

Simran Johnston 

Audrey Snyder

Kylie White

 

99¢ Plus is proud to present Age of Aquarius, a contemporary fountain garden.

Age of Aquarius presents the work of 4 female artists who each approach the fountain vessel as a contemporary medium to investigate social anxieties, the development of modern civilization, the use and distribution of water, or recreation and leisure.

 

In Kylie White’s sculpture, an oblique composition of raw steel bathed in oil, defines the relationship between the two most important resources for the development of Modern civilization. It is the font of industry as forged and fueled by the same source. 

 

Simran Johnston draws on the tradition of fountains as monuments as well as the duality in the social use of fountains as community meeting places and sites of personal contemplation.

 

Priscilla Jeong uses the fountain to explore contemporary social anxieties followed by searching for perfect health and peace through consumer objects. Jeong uses surreal humor to highlight the pathetic situations experienced in her narrative of self-discovery.

 

Audrey Snyder's ceramic vessels propose a model for the not-solid. In stilling the organization, distribution, and movement of water as infrastructure, the steep, slip, dissolve and saturation become a reverse current from which we can drink.