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BLOCKBUSTER OPENING RECEPTION Saturday 9 August, 6-9pm Crawl Space is pleased to present Blockbuster, the first in a series of installations by UK-based artists Alex Gross & Sandy Smith as they travel across the American West in search of new artistic territories. Based on chance encounters and using materials collected by the artists en route from Utah to Seattle, the artists reflect on an intrusion or injection of humanity into site through direct interventions and performative sculptural gestures. "The West coast, home to the country's barren no-mans-lands as well as some of its most populous urban centers, exposes the dialectic relationship between man and his creations. We focus on the Western states with the mythical idea of the artist as journeyman." Alex Gross and Sandy Smith each received degrees in Fine Art from the Glasgow School of Art and have exhibited extensively throughout Scotland and Northern Europe. This is their first collaborative project with consequent installations scheduled for Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. |
