Jardin N°19, installation view at Springsteen Gallery, Baltimore

October-November 2014

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Jardin N°19, installation view at Springsteen Gallery, Baltimore

October-November 2014

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ERIKA CERUZZI, City (four-ten), 2014
vinyl, embroidery, dyed canvas 2014

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ERIKA CERUZZI, Denise (detail), 2014  

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ALEX ITO, In Denial of Falling (fair-weather friends), 2014
aluminum, stainless steel, glass, digital vinyl print, digital fabric print, resin, ceramic, moss, wood, and plaster 2014

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ALEX ITO, In Denial of Falling (fair-weather friends), 2014
aluminum, stainless steel, glass, digital vinyl print, digital fabric print, resin, ceramic, moss, wood, and plaster 2014

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ALEX ITO, In Denial of Falling (fair-weather friends), 2014
aluminum, stainless steel, glass, digital vinyl print, digital fabric print, resin, ceramic, moss, wood, and plaster 2014

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Jardin N°19, installation view at Springsteen Gallery, Baltimore

October-November 2014

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ALEX ITO, There is Always an Excuse, 2014
UV curable ink and metal etch on aluminum panel 2014

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ALEX ITO, Think of Me Fondly (touching myself at work), 2014
aluminum, stainless steel, glass, digital vinyl print, digital fabric print, resin, wood, and plaster 2014

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ALEX ITO, Think of Me Fondly (touching myself at work), 2014
aluminum, stainless steel, glass, digital vinyl print, digital fabric print, resin, wood, and plaster 2014

all images courtesy of the artists and Springsteen Gallery, Baltimore

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Jardin n°19, an exhibition of ALEX ITO and ERIKA CERUZZI, captures the tensions between a natural environment that bears the mark of social and economic structures and synthetic material culture. CERUZZI’s hanging horizontal rail system that navigates through the space has a visceral presence, and her unique embroidery works echo the basic assumptions of the artist’s creative path. In contrast, ITO displays his concerns in two sculptures and a series of wall works, all engaged with the existence of the photographic image in a dematerialized format.

There is a graceful synchronicity between these two artists’ work: according to the press release, at a singular point in CERUZZI’s structure, a vertical pole drops to meet with one of ITO’s floor sculptures which acts as a stage for his objects; taking the form of a planter filled with artificially produced floral elements. The peculiar, tortuous growth of the plant towards the square floor sculpture traps the viewer between sculpture and decoration, technological objectivity and human hand, present and idealized representation.

ERIKA CERUZZI (b. 1990) is a New York based artist who has recently relocated to Baltimore, MD. She received her BFA from Cooper Union in 2012. Her recent solo show, m, i, n, e, at Interstate Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, opened in March 2014.  She will participate in the The Still House Group residency program in 2015.

ALEX ITO (b.1991) is an American artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Ito received his BFA from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY in 2013, with a double minor in Art History and Cultural Studies. Recent solo and two-person projects include Rod Barton Gallery, London, UK (2014), The Home Tao Tsiao, Art in General, NY (2014); Think of Me Fondly, Water McBeer Gallery (2014); Single Image (with Brendan Lynch), Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA (2014) and Victory, The Still House Group, Redhook, NY (2013). 

→ Jardin n°19 by ALEX ITO and ERIKA CERUZZI is on view at Springsteen Gallery in Baltimore until November 28, 2014

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