CRYSTAL PALACE

Opening Reception: Friday, November 1st, 6-10pm

Artist Discussion: Friday, November 1st, @ 6pm

Exhibition: November 1st – December 28th, 2019

Local Language: 477 25th Street, Oakland CA 94612

Please join us Friday, November 1st at 6PM for an artist discussion lead by Aggregate Space Gallery co-founder, Conrad Meyers.

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

Crystal Palace is an investigation into our relationship to objects, landscape, and the act of looking. The viewer is presented with window-like displays of silhouetted still-life objects camouflaged into an idyllic landscape. The relationship between foreground and background is obscured in the imagery: flatness and illusionistic space slip in and out of focus as one grapples with the distinction between inside and outside, and as distance and proximity vie for position and prominence.

Crystal Palace exhibits two distinct series of artworks. One series is comprised of printing and painting on linen, introducing digital elements to recent works by the artist. The other series utilizes CNC-cut aluminum components arranged to bring the aluminum shapes and printed forms of the paintings into shallow relief. Both series blur the lines between the foreground and background, and the works conjure themes of displacement and reflection on nature while simultaneously exploring the tension between digital and analogue.

ARTIST’S BIO

Robert Minervini is an artist working in painting, mural painting, printmaking, and site-specific public art. His work examines spatial environments and notions of utopia in large-scale cityscapes, landscapes, and still-life arrangements. With an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a BFA from Tyler School of Art, he has exhibited nationally, received numerous awards, and completed multiple murals and public art commissions. Recent public works include projects commissioned by the San Francisco Arts Commission, the Alameda County Arts Commission, and the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program. His Bay Area commissions include a mural at the SFO Airport Terminal 1 and the Walnut Creek BART station (to be completed 2020). Minervini lives and works in Oakland, CA.

Local Language is an Art, Design, and Fabrication studio providing curated art collections for commercial properties across the globe. The Artist in Residence program offers space, time, and facilities for artists in a multitude of disciplines to explore creative pursuits and utilize technology to further their own art practice. We are a working art manufacturer. Made in the Garage District, Oakland California.

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