RUDOLPH SERRA
Sculpture
KES ZAPKUS
Mindset-Timeset Variations
August 18 through September 16, 2007
Reception: Saturday,
August 18, 6-8 PM
at Art Sites,
Hours are Thursday –Sunday, 12-5 PM.
For more information and additional
hours call 631 591 2401.
RUDOLPH SERRA
Serra describes his process, “Intuition,
materiality, process, gesture, abstraction, presence, and kiln/high fire
reduction are all aspects, thoughts, and concerns that are referenced in each
sculptural piece. Yet, each piece is
formed free of any specific preconceived idea. To be
To let go.”
Rudolph Serra has been teaching
art at institutions such as
KES ZAPKUS
These works explore the correlatives in thought, expression,
and time. Zapkus juxtaposes images of architectural
building plans, by several unrelated individuals, simultaneously conceived in
the same time period. Using this as raw informational material he freely
associates, makes correspondences and transformations for his own expressive
ends. Zapkus has always been intrigued with analyzing
and tracing thought processes in the residual of Art. The thinking which
conjures creativity expresses a free and unlimited range of inquiry outside of
functionality. The scores and plans Zapkus plumbs are
maps of a wide range of human impulses: analytical, emotional, logical,
erratic, and transcendent responses to human questions of being. They are
evident and extraordinarily specific mindsets of information. Zapkus uses them to construct evidence of his own mindset
in response. Unlike the traditional, perennial re-imaging of
figure and landscape (with a twist) to access human reality, Zapkus tries to mainline experiential reality directly,
using mental configurations as the starting point.
Kes Zapkus
has shown extensively in