7 Point Perspective

2017

Participation Artist

Location: 13424 Beach Ave #2, Marina Del Rey CA 90291

 This exhibit is a collaboration between 7 photographers, a group of musicians, and a general contractor who are all orbiting around contemporary architecture, in Los Angeles, and around the world. 

After completing the restoration of John Launter’s iconic Silvertop, Nate Wasik ( NWGC) came to a friend/photographer, with a proposal to use this cleaned out, industrial, work space, acquired for the Silvertop project, but now empty, to put on an art exhibit. Nate’s original idea was to have a single photographer’s work in the space. Through a series of discussions, the concept of a group show quickly developed, and the idea of presenting multiple points of view became the main focus of the project. Each artist in the show is either an architect who is a photographer, or a photographer who works as an architectural photographer, or both. 

7 Point Perspective is a collaboration to present a series of images around themes in personal, rather than professional work. Together, the artists decided to focus the exhibition on their concerns with contemporary photography, as seen through architecture, design and the evolving visual media of this moment in history. The photographs on the walls are presented, in some sense, as series of images woven into the visual tapestry of a singular, unfolding, perceptual experience. There is no strict beginning or end to the sequence, as the arrangement of the individual photographs relate to the formal aspects within the photos, rather than the identities of the artists or individual points of view. 

As an added dimension, the musicians of HEALTH AND BEAUTY, will be performing at the opening. HEALTH AND BEAUTY is an improvisational ensemble, working in the realm between chance and strategy, interweaving analog, digital and acoustic sources into dense, elastic sound constructions. Each performance is site and context specific, and may contain NOISE.

The photographers and musicians would like to thank our host, Nate Wasik, for the opportunity to present this show, for all the hard work he, and his crew, put into transforming a work space into a gallery space, and for the generosity he has exhibited at every point in this project.