Kucera's works have recently been acquired by Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid; and Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY. Though Gregory is no relation to Greg Kucera, the similarity of name offers an opportunity to examine the concept of "doubling" as we take on this new space. Kucera's continued interest in themes of repetition and replication will be manifest in an installation specifically designed for our new exhibition gallery by this challenging and innovative artist.
We are grateful to I-20 gallery in New York for support in presenting this exhibition.
"Kucera enlisted an actress to perform one end of an emotionally charged telephone conversation shot in numerous takes in four different locations. Kucera spliced together snippets of each to reconstruct the conversation, producing a continuous video narrative just jittery enough to confirm that the singular moment is in fact the product of multiple or parallel experiences, records, recollections." - Christopher Miles, ArtForum.
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FOG, 2004
Ultrachrome print, sealed between cast acrylic
Unique variant, from a series of 3
20.25 x 34.5 inches
$3,200.
TEMPORAL RELIEF, 2002
Polyurethane and resin 23.5 x 23.5 x 23.5 inches
$5,000.
EYEBALLER 13, 2004
Ultrachrome print sealed between Plexiglas sheets
2 panels, 19.5 x 23 inches each; 19.5 x 46 inches overall Ed/4
$3,000.
EYEBALLER 14, 2004
Ultrachrome print sealed between Plexiglas sheets
34.5 x 42.75 inches Ed/4
$3,500.
EYEBALLER 15, 2004
Ultrachrome print sealed between Plexiglas sheets
28 x 41 inches Ed/4
$3,000.
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ERASING HOLES 4, 2004
Unique perforated cast acrylic 23.25 x 33.5 inches
Multiple of 4
$2,500.
Installation view of ERASING HOLES 4, 5, 6, and 7, 2004
ERASING HOLES 5, 2004
Unique perforated cast acrylic 23.25 x 33.5 inches
Multiple of 4
$2,500.
ERASING HOLES 6, 2004
Unique perforated cast acrylic 23.25 x 33.5 inches
Multiple of 4
$2,500.
Surface detail of the surface of ERASING HOLES 6
ERASING HOLES 7, 2004
Unique perforated cast acrylic 23.25 x 33.5 inches
Multiple of 4
$2,500.
LINE & FLIGHT, 2002
Single channel digital video installation
Ed/4
$2,000.
TINA: SPATIOTEMPORAL RECONSTRUCTION 2, 2002
Video on DVD
Ed/4
$2,000.
TINA is a video piece consisting of four takes shot in four locations of one side of a telephone conversation edited together to create one visual and audio whole. Spatial discontinuities are held together through both verbal and graphic matching, presenting the viewer with four parallel locations reconstructed into a continuous digital montage.
Intervals and Inversions is an installation consisting of three works: Line & Flight a multi-channel video installation, Eyeballer a photographic diptych, and Temporal Relief a sculpture.
Each piece in the installation derives its source from an intersection in downtown Los Angeles, each work draws on the space-time, color, or form, from of site. Based in ideas of the landscape, the installation is conceptually engaged with distinguishing "form" from "background" in a world not determined by weight and gravity, but by information.
The four channel video installation is an investigation into simulation, perspective, gravity, and the body.
The primary interaction between the works in Intervals and Inversions takes these structural methodologies and synaesthetically inverts facets of their informational continuity into different media. Each work is made from parts of the other works. Form and color are discreet entities. The works though potentially autonomous entities, together attempt to map relations and perceptions derived from simulation and turn them into things. I am interested in the reification of the artifactual errors of simulation, as providing the possibility to reconstruct subjectivity.
Part of the Installation Intervals and Inversions, Temporal Relief is a physical cubic inversion of negative space from the downtown Los Angeles intersection in Line & Flight.
Images from the intersection were scanned and converted to 3 dimensions where the background is foregrounded. The top panel is a view looking up at the sky. The object has been fabricated using a computer controlled mill in polyurethane. It is representational when one's position is centered on axis and abstract as one's perspective shifts away from the X, Y, and Z axis. Temporal Relief is a cubic inversion of space and a physicalized manifestation of time.
Another part of the installation is the Eyeballer series of images. The work extracts the color information and blur from Line and Flight to create an intense optically co-founding set of figure ground relations. Eyeballer derives its title from the term used by skydivers when describing the optical process of falling to earth.
