Shedding some of its listless lackluster, the summer show is becoming a testing ground for young artists, or those working in less sale-able and more experimental mediums, like installation and video. Bucking the trend of your usual summer group show roundups, we鈥檝e put...
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..Giles communicates what the eye records in the moment she encounters these structures, and the materials the artist employs, as well as the craft-like technique speak to the fragility of memory, and the...
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..Giles selects and isolates fragments of iconic architecture in the same way that tourists鈥 photographs privilege the most distinctive and recognizable elements of a place...
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..Giles鈥 formal comparison of the two structures conversely suggests opposing perspectives; the church continues to point toward the heavens, while the television tower returns our gaze to Earth....
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..Moving between the miniature and the large-scale, Giles鈥 two distinct bodies of work point to memory and spectatorship using architecture as its impetus...
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..Taking an additional step in the contemporary context, Giles is interested in the slippage of these powerful architectural structures into the realm of the vernacular through the rapid transmission of...
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