DAMEON LESTER » The Ethnocentric Nature of Line http://www.dameonlester.com Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:29:39 +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 The Ethnocentric Nature of Line
Solo Exhibition, 2009
Irvine Valley College Art Gallery
Irvine, CA

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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