SOLIGNUM ATTACK and CONNECTING DOTS TOMORROW! OCTOBER 26, 2013

Don't miss the opening of Solignum Attack and Connecting Dots tomorrow night!

Look like it's gonna be another two-show night!

See you there!

SOLIGNUM ATTACK this Saturday, October 26, 2013!

Connecting Dots this October 26, 2013!


Connecting dots is a familiar puzzle – a line is drawn to join a sequence of dots, revealing a final image. It is also used as a verbal metaphor for associating ideas with one another, with the purpose of enabling one to see the bigger picture.
In this exhibit, the artists’ works prompt inquiries into relativism and absolute truth. In the contemporary context, one can easily have access to a myriad of choices, as well as corresponding justifications for them. While society and cultural milieu normally dictate the most acceptable courses of action, are these choices right? And as a corollary, how do an individual’s choices affect society as a whole? In the search for an individual truth, is the meaning of absolute truth lost?
The artists explore the range of relativism, from cautionary to optimistic – addressing whether relativism is in fact a hindrance to seeking absolute truth, enabling people to seek comfort rather than meaning in their lives, to reflection on the interconnectedness and implications of each individual’s judgments, actions and decisions. 
Each artwork, and each artist, represents an individual truth and idea, yet they are all interconnected, like the dots that connect to one another, a cell to an organism, and man to humanity.

Isa Munoz

Rob Cham's first solo show 'HEADSPACE' this Saturday, October 5!

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For many happy years now, Rob Cham has been drawing stuff for a living. All this stuff has found its way into magazines and publications and objects, and now there is wonderful new stuff on canvas, for you to love and behold. After four years of exhibiting in group shows, bright young illustrator, comics artist, designer, and friend Rob Cham fills Vinyl On Vinyl with his first solo exhibit: Headspace. In his characteristic, charismatic, convoluted style, heavy on detail and feeling, Rob has Cham'd his concerns. And there are many. We feel them all. No stranger to overwork or overthinking or overflowing feelings, Rob has painstakingly depicted the pains of possibility and paralysis. Everything piles up, what you could would should have done or said, what others have done and said, the labyrinthine thought -- and we carry this on our shoulders. Rob has made portraits of us all.

Rob Cham's depictions of modern confusion take the frilly cake and eat it too. Mmm. Cake. Rob Cham, like cake, is very sweet and universally adored by big businesses and young people, and Rob has Cham'd many things for a wide audience. It is too bad that cake is incapable of art because then the only difference between Rob Cham and cake would be their ingredients. Headspace is more proof that Rob Cham is very capable of art.

written by Petra Magno

MULTIPLAY group show this Saturday, October 5!

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In an era where we, (Well, technically our alternate selves. But who can tell nowadays?), can shoot plasma with arm cannons. An era where you can stomp turtles as big as mustachioed plumbers. In an era where uppercutting a 7-foot tall, one-eyed, muscular Thai man in the chest was socially acceptable; you can leave all your self-imposed limitations behind. As far as the eye can see, as far as your imagination can reach, nothing is beyond your wildest dreams. You can be whatever you want to be.

Over the years, video games has redefined the virtual landscape. Constantly evolving, upping the ante one game after the other. From Pacman, to Super Mario, to Crash Bandicoot, Tomb Raider to Grand Theft Auto.

The video game has forever changed the face of entertainment and modern technology.

Multiplay is a playful exchange between man and the virtual world. The exhibit presents the video game phenomenon as it attempts to confine it back into its box. Multiplay explores the influence of the virtual world as each artist pay homage to various games.

 

Come play with us at the MULTIPLAY exhibit this coming Saturday, October 5! 

Games start at 7pm!

See you there!