Front of Kool Man Ice Cream Truck Justin Lowe Helter Swelter Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery is pleased to announce Justin Lowe's New York solo debut exhibition. For this summer long exhibition, Lowe has reconstructed the architecture and environment of the gallery to bring the city indoors. The exhibition consists of three site specific installations which recreate popular metropolitan, summer-time places of refuge, icons of annoyance, and backdrops for those heady moments that occur with more consistency as the city's temperature rises. The gallery's entrance is transformed into a bodega-front, with its extreme color overload, blaring imported music and questionable refrigerators - a classic drug front. At this point the gallery becomes a façade, and marks the beginning of more moments of disorientation and surprise as things aren't quite what they seem. A revolving door leads into a temporary sidewalk construction site, with its shoddy, warped wood and posters advertising concerts, festivals and movies that you would only pay to see in order to spend two hours in an air conditioned theatre. Once outside the construction site an 18 Foot Kool Man Ice Cream Truck is revealed, a sweet haven on wheels, and another classic drug front, this time accompanied by a collaborative soundtrack. Exhibition: June 1 - July 28, 2006 Gallery hours: Mon-Fri 11am - 6pm (Summer hours) Oliver Kamm - 5BE Gallery 621 west 27th Street, Ground Floor USA-New York, NY 10011 Telephone +1 212 255-0979 Email okamm@mac.com www.5begallery.com |
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