MAY 12 - JUNE 8
 
   
    SEISMIC MEMORY
recent work by Christina McPhee

On view through May 12-Jun 8

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12pm-5pm

 

Rx is very pleased to present its next exhibition " Seismic Memory: Carrizo-Parkfield Diaries" featuring recent work by Los Angeles artist Christina McPhee.


   

 


Exhibiting Artists:

   

Christina McPhee

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Aftershock Event Cloud, 2005 (from "Seismic Memory" series)

 

 

Christina McPhee builds very large digital chromogenic prints from medium format documentary photography, digital video, digital photography and field drawings, from the Carrizo Plain, called the "Cadillac" of San Andreas Fault geomorphology, north to Parkfield, site of the most thoroughly studied recent quake in California (September 28, 2004). In architectonic vertical stacks of images, the artist conflates field observation within a dream-like sequence of painterly shadow and illumination. Carrizo's stark terrain, littered with debris from abandoned homes and cars, is the site of McPhee's field notes and landscape performance, shot in documentary video over a period of four years with Terry Hargrave. Stills from the video work infiltrate the architecturally scaled prints, where, layering her onsite drawings with traces from geomorphologic maps, the artist shape-shifts visual narratives that put the intangible, intimate and local sense of place, up against the reality of continuous seismic activity in California. Online at http://carrizoparkfielddiaries.net, animations based on the video documentation and the chromogenic prints, flash across the screen in fleeting layers, that trigger from a "crash" of near-live ground motion data compilations into archived seismic data from the recent Parkfield quake. Conceptually, the current data's reach into the past changes the archive from a static resource to an uncanny future array.


Carrizo Parkfield Diaries site
Quicktime Video

 

 

 

 
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