DAMEON LESTER » The Ethnocentric Nature of Line http://www.dameonlester.com Mon, 09 Nov 2009 04:23:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://www.dameonlester.com/the-ethnocentric-nature-of-line/ http://www.dameonlester.com/the-ethnocentric-nature-of-line/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:43:47 +0000 Sarah http://www.dameonlester.com/?p=1307 Solo Exhibition /// Sept 17 – Oct 16, 2009 /// Irvine Valley College Art Gallery

Show dates extended through Oct 30, 2009.

The Ethnocentric Nature of Line questions our cultural insistence over nature. By simulating natural forms with line through a repetitive method of production, I focus my contemplation, in an attempt to discern the imbalance within ourselves and with nature.

works on display » IVC Installation / 2009 IVC Installation / 2009 IVC Installation / 2009 IVC Installation / 2009 IVC Installation / 2009 Knot This Way, the Other / 2009 Knot This Way, the Other [detail] / 2009 A Basket? Too Complect to Tail. / 2009 A Basket? Too Complect to Tail. [detail] / 2009 The Foot Between Us / 2009 The Foot Between Us [detail] / 2009 Future Expansion has a Blue End / 2009 Future Expansion has a Blue End [detail] / 2009 Suspended / 2009 Stranded / 2009 Stranded [detail] / 2009 Skirting the Issue / 2009 Skirting the Issue [detail] / 2009 Somewhere, Elsewhere (A Truculent Story) / 2009 Somewhere, Elsewhere (A Truculent Story) [detail] / 2009 My Beginning is an End / 2009 My Beginning is an End [detail] / 2009 Recoil / 2009 Recoil [detail] / 2009 Berry Blue / 2009 Bulbous Protuberant Stemmed / 2009 Infinity Blackened / 2009 Infinity of a Different Stripe, a Twisted Fate / 2009 Scale is a Mindset with Blue Sticks (and Wire) / 2007 Scale is a Mindset with Blue Sticks (and Wire) [detail] / 2007 Kinks in Chaos / 2009 Kinks in Chaos [detail] / 2009 Scale is a Mindset with Red Sticks (and Wire) / 2007 Scale is a Mindset with Red Sticks (and Wire) [detail] / 2007 Contortions of a Purple-Yellow Haze / 2009 Contortions of a Purple-Yellow Haze [detail] / 2009 Rigid in Red (petite) / 2009 Rigid in Red (petite) [detail] / 2009 Rigid in Red/Yellow / 2009 Rigid in Red/Yellow [detail] / 2009 Silhouette Series: A Softer Future After Dusk Looms Closer / 2009 Silhouette Series: Scale is a Mindset / 2009 Silhouette Series: Rigid in Red (petite) / 2009 Silhouette Series: Rigid in Red Examined / 2009 Silhouette Series: Blue Star Line / 2009 Silhouette Series: Blue Star Inner Stellar / 2009 Silhouette Series: Suspended Up Close / 2009 Silhouette Series: Suspended Up Closer / 2009 Silhouette Series: Knot This Way, the Other / 2009 IVC Show Announcement / 2009
01 Scale is a Mindset with Blue Sticks (and Wire) /// 2007 /// 12.5″ x 11″ x 13″ (variable) /// bamboo skewers, wire, paint
02 Scale is a Mindset with Red Sticks (and Wire) /// 2007 /// 11.5″ x 12″ x 9″ (variable) /// bamboo skewers, wire, paint
 03 Contortions of a Purple-Yellow Haze /// 2008 /// 7″ x 9″ x 6″ (variable) /// paper, felt
04 Rigid in Red (petite) /// 2008 /// 9″ x 9″ x 10.5″ (variable) /// rigid vinyl
05 Rigid in Red/Yellow /// 2009 /// 27″ x 28″ x 24″ (variable) /// rigid vinyl
06 Silhouette Series: Knot This Way, the Other /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
07 Silhouette Series: Rigid in Red Examined /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
08 Silhouette Series: Suspended Up Closer /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
09 Silhouette Series: Blue Star Inner Stellar /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
10 Silhouette Series: Suspended Up Close /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
11 Silhouette Series: A Softer Future After Dusk Looms Closer /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
12 Silhouette Series: Rigid in Red (petite) /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
13 Silhouette Series: Scale is a Mindset /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
14 Silhouette Series: Blue Star Line /// 2009 /// 9″ x 9″ x 2″ /// wood, felted paper, raster-engraved
15 Berry Blue /// 2009 /// 3″ x 4″ x 3″ /// enameled copper wire /// hand-woven
16 Bulbous Protuberant Stemmed /// 2009 /// 5.5″ x 8″ x 4″ (variable) /// enameled copper wire /// hand-woven
17 Infinity Blackened /// 2009 /// 6″ x 8″ x 3″/// enameled copper wire /// hand-woven
18 Infinity of a Different Stripe, a Twisted Fate /// 2009 /// 6″ x 8″ x 6″ (variable) /// enameled copper wire /// hand-woven
19 Kinks in Chaos /// 2009 /// 6.5″ x 6″ x 4″ (variable) /// aluminum wire /// hand-woven
20 Knot This Way, the Other /// 2009 /// 98″ x 9″ x 9″ (variable) /// aluminum wire /// hand-woven
21 Suspended /// 2009 /// 50″ x 13″ x 13″ /// aluminum welding wire /// hand-woven
22 Future Expansion has a Blue End /// 2009 /// 60″ x 30″ x 11″ (variable) /// aluminum wire, enameled copper wire /// hand-woven
23 The Foot Between Us /// 2009 /// 84″ x 7.5″ x 65″ /// aluminum wire, copper wire, steel /// hand-woven
24 A Basket? Too Complect to Tail. /// 2009 /// 10″ x 21″ x 20″ /// aluminum wire, copper magnet wire /// hand-woven
25 Skirting the Issue /// 2009 /// 99″ x 30″ x 30″ /// tie wire /// hand-woven
26 Stranded /// 2009 /// 24″ x 30″ x 10″ (variable) /// tie wire /// hand-woven
27 Somewhere, Elsewhere (A Truculent Story) /// 2009 /// 32″ x 78″ x 70″ (variable) /// tie wire /// hand-woven
28 My Beginning is an End /// 2009 /// 27″ x 92″ x 44″ (variable) /// tie wire /// hand-woven
29 Recoil /// 2009 /// 48″ x 57″ x 24″ (variable) /// tie wire /// hand-woven

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