Richard Levy Gallery Shows Horst and Daniel Zielske & Nancy Rubins

Written by Jonathan Shaner Thursday, 07 April 2011 00:43

Albuquerque, NM - The Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by Horst and Daniel Zielske and a print folio of studies for monumental sculpture by Nancy Rubins. On exhibition June 1 – July 16, 2007.

Horst and Daniel Zielske depict a new type of city born of a technologically fueled, frenetic, twenty-first century.  They track the uneven development of time and space through the built environment in a series titled Megalopolis Shanghai.  In this city the lights never dim and the streets never quiet, whether the hum is human, electronic, or something in between, is uncertain.  These photographs convey the beauty and speed of such a vision, as well as its phantasms and pitfalls.  The exhibition includes a selection of photographs from this series, which has been in production since 2002, and premiered at the Museum for Art and Trade (MKG) in Hamburg, Germany in 2006. Horst was born in 1946, Daniel in 1972.  Both live and work in Göttingen, Germany.  A father son team, they have been collaborating on photography since 1993.  Their work is featured this year at MKG.  A book of this series is available.

Nancy Rubins, however, inverts the ideals of Megalopolis.  She takes the refuse of society, leftover industrial and consumer goods, and reforms them into sculpture, that appears delicate and weightless yet oversized and imposing, suspended in air like industrial palm trees.  The Richard Levy Gallery is pleased to present a portfolio of studies for these large-scale sculptures. In this project, boats are welded together and resemble more organic form: birds and foliage.  Born in Texas, Rubins lives and works in Topanga Canyon, California. She received her BFA from Maryland Institute, College of Art, in 1974, and her MFA from University of California, at Davis in 1976. She has exhibited work in numerous institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, the 45th Venice Biennale, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.  Both shows investigate the shifting perimeters of industry and art in the twenty-first century.

Visit Richard Levy Gallery - 514 Central Avenue SW - Albuquerque, NM.  For additional information or images, please contact the gallery at (505) 766.9888. Some images from this exhibition are available on our website: www.levygallery.com