moistscape (image gallery), designed and built by the architecture collaborative Freecell, and Ten Spaces, an exhibition of photographs by Ezra Stoller at the Henry Urbach Gallery until July 30.
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Press Release:
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HENRY URBACH ARCHITECTURE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
GALLERY ONE: FREECELL moistscape
GALLERY TWO: EZRA STOLLER TEN SPACES
1 JUNE - 30 JULY 2004
Henry Urbach Architecture is pleased to present a pair of exhibitions that focus on space as material and forcefield.
moistscape, designed and built by the architecture collaborative Freecell, combines a three-dimensional steel matrix with inset panels of live moss to create a synthetic urban landscape. Drawing on Freecell's interest in the urban accident — unexpected collisions of form, material, and experience that animate metropolitan life — moistscape will bring us into a range of encounters with damp, verdant planes of transplanted nature. Four types of moss will float above a ground of soft rubber shards, forming improbable spaces of various scales that invite viewers to engage with the landscape and each other in multiple ways.
Freecell is a Brooklyn-based studio founded in 1998 by Lauren Crahan and John Hartmann. Along with associate Corey Yurkovich, Freecell pursues an active professional practice and course of experimental work, including their installation "Beneath" at Artists Space in 2002. Lauren studied architecture at Rhode Island School of Design and worked with Weiss/Manfredi and Rafael Viñoly Architects; John studied at the Cooper Union before working in the studios of Neil Denari and LOT-EK, and is a recipient of this year's Rome Prize. Freecell designed an exhibition of Le Corbusier drawings and models at Henry Urbach Architecture last year, and this is their first solo gallery show.
Ten Spaces is an exhibition of photographs by Ezra Stoller ranging from some of his most iconic images to others never exhibited before. The show focuses on Stoller's interest in modernist space and how he rendered this space compelling by interpreting and often suppressing more tectonic, material qualities of buildings. Architectural surfaces become, in these arresting works, abstract planes, ribbons or folds against which space is revealed and allowed to resonate.
Born in Chicago in 1915, Ezra Stoller began photographing buildings as an architecture student in the 1930s and quickly developed a reputation as one of the world's leading architectural photographers. His photographs have been published and exhibited internationally and belong to numerous museum collections, including the Canadian Centre for Architecture, the Houston Museum of Fine Arts, the High Art Museum, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. His vintage and limited edition photographs are exclusively represented by Henry Urbach Architecture, and an extensive exhibition of his work is on view at Williams College Museum of Art from June to December of this year.
For further information and images please contact the gallery.
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