Dub Furniture @ PUBLICO - opens February 24th

[justa bill]

Chris Vorhees - Dub Furniture
Opening: Friday, February 24th, 7 to 11pm

Show Runs: February 24th to March 25th
Closing Reception: March 24, 7-10pm
Gallery Hours: Saturdays, 2 to 4pm
Free

@ PUBLICO
1308 Clay Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
http://www.publicoart.com/



Domestic environment receives humorous, critical look

Artist Chris Vorhees takes household objects such as lawn chairs and kitchen cabinets and hybridizes, reduces and reworks them into forms that call attention to the role of the independent craftsman and the role of the consumer. Fetishized design trends such as Ikea Furniture and the home improvement/remodeling phenomenon are deeply, rudely explored.

Featured works include:

• A life-sized working carboard model of Vorhees’ own kitchen questions the practice of living with design toward an ultimate functional environment.

• A 4x8 sheet of homemade plywood

• A replica piece of flat – pack furniture from Target

• Several objects smugly resembling leisure furniture, lawn chairs, and patio furniture

• Several large-format pencil drawings that are meditations on the building process.

Vorhees is a sculptor; he has a porch and is currently the Chief Preparator of Exhibits at the Contemporary Art Center.

[justa bill]

this show waas pretty cool. for me, having built countless cardboard models as an architecture student, it was impressive and pretty damn funny to see a life-sized kitchen built out of cardboard. :]

the rest is pretty cool too. i like the beverage holder.

and right around the corner, there's a new show of paintings at the 1305 Gallery (http://www.cincinnatigalleries.net/fineart.htm) that's worth checking out too.