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EB Cult’s Review – LOOK: Spectrum Vision by AD Projects

Saturday, June 9, 2012 No Comments by ADProjects

“Spectrum Vision” // A Group Exhibition by AD Projects at Reverse Art Space

by Chad Saville, June 6, 2012

Alex Yudzon, Atlas Clouds: Philippines, 2012, watercolor and acrylic on paper, 11 x 14 inches

New York based curatorial collaborative AD Projects hosted a group exhibition entitledSpectrum Vision this Sunday at Reverse Art Space in Williamsburg. Notable standouts of the show were Alex Yudzon, Jeffrey Beebe, and artist & sculptor Alex Arcadia.

Yudzon’s Atlas Cloud series, mixed media over pages of a 1937 atlas uses lines of demarcation as composition and detail, exploring boundaries of nations and the relevance of symbols that divide form and distance.

“I am incredibly inspired by the concept of travel,” Said Yudzon. “Some of these pieces represent, in broad strokes, what the landscape might look like in the area the map represents, allowing the viewer to fill the finer details with their own imagination.”

Jeffrey Beebe shows a huge cast of characters in The Copper Palanquin, part of a larger series entitled “Adventures in Refractoria.” The characters are numerous and delicately conceived — residents of an imaginary world which parallels Beebe’s own history.

Jeffrey Beebe, The Copper Palanquin, 2010 - 2012, 44 x 90 inches, ink and gouache on paper

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Upcoming Exhibition: SPECTRUM VISION Opens June 3

Wednesday, May 23, 2012 No Comments by Jill

AD Projects is proud to present Spectrum Vision, an exhibition of young visionaries. The seven artists in Spectrum Vision are unified by separate, singular conceptions of the world as it might have been, as it could be now, and as it may become. They are not simply of our time; they are beyond it.

Painter, sculptor and conceptualist Alex Arcadia re-imagines the essence of power and image through invention. Operating under the slogan BRIGHTSHINYFUTURE, Arcadia has devised a system of interplaying signs and relics to create a futuristic mythology linked to a self-titled cosmology, Arcadia. Arcadia encompasses both history and fantasy, addressing themes of propagandistic logic, nation building, commercial enterprise, commodity culture, collectivity and individuality. The SuperGymnast, an erotically charged voluptuous goddess and recurring central figure in his work, will be on display.

Over the last ten years, Jeffrey Beebe has created a large cast of recurring characters in his drawings, collectively titled Adventures in Refractoria. Such figures as Greencandle the Archmage, Phacops Attaboise, and the Wild Uncles populate Refractoria, an imagino-ordinary world which parallels the artist’s personal history. Beebe drops these characters into various scenarios and records their reactions, such that Refractoria has developed a rich history and complicated social structure. Large drawings such as The Copper Palanquin and Celestial Map of Western Refractoria display the complicated geographical schemata and social machinations of Refractoria. Influences as varied as the woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, the pen and ink cartoons of Honoré Daumier and William Hogarth, and Dungeons and Dragons illustrations inform Beebe’s intricately conceived drawings. Each work on display in Spectrum Vision constitutes an entry in Beebe’s ongoing visual novel.