November 18-December 10, 2016
Opening reception: Third Friday, November 18, 6-9pm
Artist reception: First Friday, December 2, 6-10pm
Closing reception: Saturday, December 10, 1-4pm
Modified Arts is proud to present the return of two of our most in-demand artists, photographer Bill Timmerman and sculptor/mixed-media artist Christine Cassano.
Bill Timmerman, an Arizona resident since the 1980s, has built a career on seeing the lines between nature and the built environment. Working as an architectural photographer by day, his keen eye as identified the lines and natural reflections in buildings by such renowned architects as Will Bruder. This translates into his personal photography a softness, observing how the shapes of the world around us mark and affect our routines, moods, actions. Using intimate black-and-white, silver processed photos, the artist makes every object of architecture into a new horizon line. Timmerman has exhibited across Arizona, and is in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
Christine Cassano’s work across her career has spanned all manner of sculptural materials, merging biological and technological forms to create something neither entirely human, nor entirely robotic. Her latest body of work centers around “the future imperfect.” Using fabrication and concretization, Cassano creates glowing synthetic skins atop post-industrial solid forms, creating a kind of ancient-retro-futurism. Each piece questions the influence of the natural and unnatural on our evolution, socially and physically, forcing the viewer to reflect upon what will remain of their own era. Cassano is a 2016 Contemporary Forum grantee from the Phoenix Art Museum, recent resident at the University of West Georgia, and is part of the traveling Southwest Invitational and the last two Tempe Center for the Arts biennials.
Together, the physicality of Cassano and Timmerman’s works shine. Each find themselves ruminating on the impact of man on the built environment, and how that built environment affects routine and remains. Though opposing in media, the two’s work melds seamlessly to create a physical, interactive exhibition yearning for an audience.
Gallery Hours:
Local First Arizona staff:
Monday-Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Gallery staff:
First Friday, 6-10 p.m.
Third Friday, 6-9 p.m.
Saturday, 12-4 p.m.
Or by appointment, scheduled by E-mail.
Modified Arts
407 E. Roosevelt St.
Phoenix, AZ 85004
www.modifiedarts.org
