Vertical Gallery

Dates: April 23 to May 7, 2009

Artists: Shandy Bearman and Alexandra Demasson (both Victoria)

Curator: Marlaina Buch

Opening: April 23, 2009, 5 p.m.

An exhibition by two intriguing emergering artists selected by curator Marlaina Buch. Shandy Bearman and Alexandra Demasson contributed individual sculptural installations that explored the accumulation and dispersal of social constraints and expectations.

Shandy Bearman's Tension evoked anxious feelings by confining a wax-filled form within a series of incrementally smaller glass boxes. The sequential size reudction eventually causes the form to "burst", producing a violent reflection on the inevitable result of social containment.

Shandy Bearman, Tension, 2009

Shandy Bearman, Tension, 2009

Alexandra Demasson's Community As A Home For Many involved a participatory exploration of three amorphous hanging forms with the goal of creating new spaces for unguarded social interation and play.

Alexandra Demasson, Community As A Home For Many, 2009

Alexandra Demasson, Community As A Home For Many, 2009

Alexandra Demasson, Community As A Home For Many, 2009