Luis Cruz Azaceta
This exhibition Museum Plans is a body of work that Azaceta has been doing for about two years – exploring new territories and looking towards the museum as subject. A museum where space and strategies come together to formulate a plan for the viewer’s perception and consciousness; a cultural container that toys, elicits, and moves one’s thoughts and placement. In making these paintings he begins with the outline structure – a somewhat architectonic form that evolves into many absurd and playful pathways. The seriousness of the black line is played against the absurdity of elements that don’t belong in these spaces, transgressions if you will – entries/exits, tunnels/cavities, contraptions, computer chip remnants, control panels, threads, erotic angles, wires and toys – elements in shifting spaces that stream into multiple directives. For this exhibition at the Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, he has included a work that deals with the plans of the gallery space.