Derek Larson - Commonwealth - opening reception October 7, 2011

Commonwealth
Derek Larson
October 7 - November 5
Opening Reception Friday, October 7 6-10PM

Good Citizen is pleased to present Commonwealth, a billboard project and sculptural video installation by Derek Larson.

Commonwealth will be an immersive installation in which Derek Larson creates a dilapidated sculpture garden incorporating projected video statuary. The work will rely heavily upon the viewer’s previous experiences with classical statuary in large institutions. Larson will present a virtual likeness to a grand garden, questioning its function and validity as a common space for public interaction. Commonwealth is a response to Federica Bueti's article Give Me The Time in which she states "satisfaction of temporary desire falsifies experience". With the installation, Larson will point to the divisions in experience between private property and commonality by referencing the curatorial grandiosity of the Getty Center as a reminder of where we are not.

Derek Larson is an artist living in Georgia where he is the director of new media at Georgia Southern University. He has exhibited extensively in the US and internationally. Larson received his MFA from the Yale School of Art in 2007 and recently lectured on his work at the Finnish Museum of Photography in Helsinki. His work is on view at the NURTUREart Gallery in Brooklyn, New York until May 2012. View more of Larson's work at http://www.dereklarson.net

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