[Press Release]

ART LOT
206 COLUMBIA STREET

The ART LOT is pleased to present an outdoor sculpture show featuring the work of Don Porcaro, Reade Bryan and Soo Sunny Park. Don Porcaro’s piece, “On the Road,” is a meandering path of cast pavers painted a strong yellow. The individual pavers create a scale shift as they generate from a mirror on the wall and come toward the viewer in a seemingly endless procession. The walkway is populated with a crowd of forms; they are part architectural finial and part creature out for a promenade. Reade Bryan’s installation ”Slow Growing” uses laminated plywood scraps to make large geometric shapes that function in several ways at once. The “plys” of the wood have a strong linear visual snap that, when extruded into a form, create a tough, inherent aesthetic. Within this gestalt, Bryan explores perspective and shape-making through his hybrid drawing-sculptures. Soo Sunny Park had constructed a large piece, called “Non Building Structure” which uses a contemporary construction material, metal studs. The 2”x3” studs are
snipped, shaped, bent and attached to make a fluid and dynamic drawing in space. The “line” of the studs is used to draw individual shapes that, in turn, warp and weave into a blend of the organic and the mechanical. These three work together in understated ways. The form/space relationship of each has an aspect of growing and morphing into a larger form from a smaller unit. The tiling in Parks’s case, the crystalline quality of Bryan’s and the sea of cast creatures in Porcaro’s all suggest an integrity of parts to a whole. The show runs from June 27 to October 1, 2009, at the ART LOT.

Opening is June 27, 2-5
206 Columbia Street, corner of Columbia and Sackett Streets. On view 24/7.

Many thanks to Jim and Bobbi Vaughan for their contribution
and support of the ART LOT.
(The ART LOT is supported by the Brooklyn Arts Council.)