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Press for my show from earlier this year, Control Module #1 at Rock512Devil by a dear friend :'-)

Installation views of Impossible Eye, with work by Ginevra Shay and Miranda Pfeiffer, on view June 28 - July 19, 2014.

Installation views of Nowhere Zone: Control Module #1 on view June 7 - June 21, 2014

Installation Views from Mine All Mine with work by Vinnie Smith, on view February 22 - March 22, 2014 

Installation views from Group Show Tamago, with work by Hanna Hur, Steven Riddle and Clayton Schiff. On view April 19 - May 17, 2014.

Devil is proud to present Impossible Eye, an exhibition by Miranda Pfeiffer and Ginevra Shay. Please Join us for an opening reception on Saturday, June 28th from 7:00 - 10:00PM Since 2011, Miranda has worked almost exclusively with mechanical pencil on paper, developing a unique approach to hatching and illusionism, in a series of large, panoramic landscapes, Solitary Stones. In her new series Rock Line, Pfeiffer scales down to two and three-foot square drawings, rendering situations both imagined and observed. If Solitary Stones created an immersive narrative through spatial depth and composition, then Rock Line depicts what can be understood of a drawing in an instant. By including the corner of one's eye, the tip of one's nose or finger, Miranda’s drawings simulate the immediate vantage point of a human body. Trained in darkroom photography, Ginevra abandoned the camera as a documentation tool and began working with materials on light sensitive paper to explore the minute interactions between materiality and process. Raum Bilder, her most recent series combines collage and diorama to establish a dynamic space in which the prescribed meaning or use of images – collected from advertisements and mass-produced publications – is dissolved. These photographs explore the tonal quality, form, and texture of each image and use them like a paint stroke, or ground to build new meaning and purpose within the diorama. Through this process, Shay is able to explore photography as a material in unique object making. A conversation between the artists began in November of 2013 that focused on the deviation from realism in their respective practices. In their new series, both Pfeiffer and Shay return to the tendencies of Paleolithic art described by Arnold Hauser in A Social History of Art: “It was a technique without mystery, a matter-of-fact procedure, the objective application of methods, which had as little to do with mysticism and esoterism as when we set mousetraps, manure the ground, or take a drug. The pictures were part of the technical apparatus of this magic; they were the “trap” into which the game had to go, or rather they were the trap with the already captured animal—for the picture was both representation and the things represented, both wish and wish-fulfillment at one and the same time. “ Impossible Eye marks a convergence of optic and haptic senses, through textural and spatial illusionism and the material associations of imagery. Literal and direct, the artist’s processes construct these other worlds without ceremony. Ginevra Shay (b. 1987, Washington, DC) is an artist and curator who studied Studio Art and Art History at the University of Vermont. Ginevra's work has been exhibited and published nationally and internationally. She participated in recent exhibitions at The Finnish Museum of Photography (Finland), Notre Dame University (Maryland), John Hansard Gallery (United Kingdom), Maryland Art Place (Baltimore), and Guest Spot (Baltimore). Her publications are in the libraries of The International Center for Photography, Indie Photobook Library, Houston Center for Photography, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Miranda Pfeiffer is an artist and animator. She has shown at Commune1 in Capetown South Africa, Open Space in Baltimore, Maryland, and Vox Populi in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sh is a Kenan Fellow and a recipient of the Nancy Harrican Prize, given through the Baker Artist Fund. Currently, she is living in Los Angeles California.

Hey Everyone, Hours for Rock512Devil have changed today because of extenuating circumstances, we will be open from 6-10PM. In your evening travels please stop by to check out stock, and a screening beginning at 8PM, with repeats into the evening. Thank you!