Rockford Projects

10/13/2021

The catalogues are here! 54 pages of eyegasms. I have about 40 free copies left. If you want one, message me or email me. You’ll need to pick it up at the Baca Pompano gallery by 11/20.

10/13/2021

09/20/2021

CAMOUFLAGE: Patterns of Disruption CLOSES THURSDAY 9/23 Gallery hours 10-6

09/01/2021

Join us for a Virtual Artist Talk with Sanaz Mazinani, organized in conjunction with the exhibition "Camouflage: Patterns of Disruption", curated by Lisa Rockford.

Register via Eventbrite - link in my Bio

07/20/2021

TOMORROW! (This is not a virtual event)

07/08/2021

ON VIEW THRU 9/23

07/08/2021

ON VIEW THRU 9/23

07/03/2021

Experience the hypnotic by

On view through 9/23/21

07/02/2021

CAMOUFLAGE SNEAK PEEK No. 10:
Step into Carl Pascuzzi’s site specific installation, “I dream of juggernauts v2.0”

Part astronautical amusement park and part genie in a bottle, I dream of juggernauts is a play on depth perception using photographic design and ultraviolet print to create an environment where the viewer may choose to become a standout part of the piece or camouflage themselves and hide within.

The otherworldl juggernauts whirling in suspended motion represent an attempt to immortalize a lucid dream where the viewer is witness to the fantastical yet organized chaos.
In an attempt to understand its occurrence, Pascuzzi recreated snippets from found objects and recorded them photographically in studio.
The hypnotic imagery is comprised of meticulously arranged textures—from items that had previously been discarded in a junk drawer: paint dipped cardboard, linen scraps, cut sneaker soles, bits of faux fur, wire, glass, and mirror.
An immersive mural was then created using what the artist calls a “manual-digital” technique moving, mirroring, morphing and cutting the captured image data in ultra high resolution without the use of filters or automated apps.
Photo based wallcovering and textiles have been an integral part of Pascuzzi’s work for well over a decade. The medium allows for boundaries of scale to be pushed further into the realm of “otherness" that hybrids his art and design practices.

Exhibition guests are invited to participate by stepping in and moving throughout I dream of juggernauts and recording video, selfies, slowfies and more.

07/02/2021

CAMOUFLAGE SNEAK PEEK No. 9
(Details):
Paula Henderson’s motivating impulse is the opportunity for challenging social perceptions and disparities. More specifically, she puzzles the social impact of the representations of women’s bodies in the commercial media.

The paintings resonate with their influence in the shaping of our personal sense of self-identities
challenged by these ubiquitous archetypes—of selectively enhanced and/or diminished proportions, and out of reach in their flawless manufacture.

Henderson’s work suggests that current views of beauty, so thoroughly conflated with notions of desire, power, and celebrity- distract the construction of our personal narratives. Postures struck by
women in selfies posted on social media suggest that the pervasive publishing of sexualized tropes, ubiquitous in commercial fashion and celebrity media, have come to function as a type of representational archive of poses for women/girls to circulate themselves as powerfully attractive and in control.

“In these paintings I utilize bilateral symmetry in which tracings of the contours of models taken from commercial shoots are multiplied as mirrored abstractions.” In some, patterns resonate with the culture of emulation- identities constructed from the pages of magazines.
In others, the images riff on models as power toys - armored, slick, accessorized, and deployed in a fashion ‘field’ as icons imbued with the power to shape the contemporary landscape.

07/02/2021

CAMOUFLAGE SNEAK PEEK No. 8 -
(Detail from “She Didn't Know the System”):

FUTURE FORCE GEO SPECULATORS was a collaborative group active 2013-2015 and founded by artists Carole Frances Lung, Ellen Rothenberg and Christine Tarkowski.

Their impulse to form this collective stemmed from their common interest in the use of “textile” as a
creative and social medium. Though each artist intersects with the material within their creative production, each capitalizes upon unique aspects of “textile” as cultural or historic carrier. Their themes of collective or individual exploration include: histories of textile and garment manufacturing from cottage industry to global production; craft/art/design dialog; social and gendered histories of labor; and textiles as surface, sculpture and architecture.

In "She Didn't Know the System", a geometric wire-frame is paired with the droplet or liquid splat. Endless dualism is reflected when rational is spliced with the irrational or unruly, resulting in a liminal state or liminal pattern. The slamming together of the two states, the rigid with the viscous, suggests the feminizing of traditional architectural/mathematical languages while embodying a more dynamic and textured feminist sci-fi utopic attitude. Geometry is also often the constant framework upon which cultures can apply their temporal signature through visual languages such as architecture, sculpture and the decorative arts.