Opening tonight, and continuing through March 31: "Island of Relative Stability," the debut Los Angeles solo show by artist Sean Higgins at sixspace:
By depicting purposely-vague environments where location and situation is left to interpretation, Higgins creates an environment where the viewer has no place to stand and no solid sense of place. His vague landscapes are constructed from images, either found or taken by the artist, that are transferred to the back of Plexiglas via an acrylic transfer process – the front of the Plexiglas is then hand-sanded by the artist to produce the desired hazy effect. He attempts to deal with landscape in the contemporary world of "Google Earth" where people interact with landscapes and place in a very different way than previous generations.
More on the show here: Link. Shown here, a detail cropped from Terraform, 2007 (Inkjet print transfer and acrylic on Plexiglas, 36 x 36 in). Link to full-size.
I'll be at the opening tonight with other friends of BoingBoing — stop by and say hi!
