In the front space is a video projection by Lee Caruso , a recent graduate of Art Center. In this work viewers are subjected to tranquil sounds and pulsating images that are projected on opposite sides of the room. Verging on the pornographic these performative photographs are dark and seductive. Each image is a precious investigation of the self as another. In Spectacular Appearances, Andrea Bowers juxtaposes video images of crowds at sporting events with beautiful drawings of isolated figures from these scenes.
Bowers is drawn to sporting events and to crowds.
She watches with an observant but non-judgmental eye. Each of the many color photographs by John Divola depicts a lone house, isolated in a vast desert landscape. Each square composition has at its center a dwelling. Sometimes it looks lived in, other times it appears abandoned. In each case the hut is dwarfed by the landscape in which it sits.