R. JUSTIN STEWART IN A RASH OF NEW EXHIBITIONS COMING UP

Plus Gallery's R. Justin Stewart, another rising star on the national scene, will be included in several upcoming exhibitions this spring throughout the United States, including a major solo exhibition at the Mesa Art Center in Arizona.  Here's a snapshot of what's in store for the artist:

March 12th- April 4th 2010

Group Exhibition "The World we live in" at Like the Spice, NYC
http://www.likethespice.com/worldwelivein/worldwelivein.html 

April 2 - August 8, 2010

Solo Exhibition "2am-2pm" at Mesa Art Center in Mesa, AZ
http://www.mesaartscenter.com 

"2am-2pm investigate the ramifications of trying to engage with a complex or simplistic world.  We are constantly flooded with an abundance of visual information that surpasses our capacity to comprehend it. In order to function, we filter the visual information by abstracting, abbreviating, and categorizing. Transit systems assist riders by providing simplified tools for engaging with the infrastructure; complex routes are reduced to basic maps and the thousands of scheduled stops are organized into navigable matrices. 2am-2pm removes these filters and presents a three-dimensional model of the Sunday Minneapolis / St. Paul public transit system, where the horizontal axes represent directional movement and the vertical represents time. The piece is constructed of 47 horizontal layers, each forming a map of the bus routes that run during a given interval of time. Looking down from the top, one sees the Sunday bus map of the Twin Cities, while looking from the side, the times appears as strata building upwards. Within each layer, every transit route that operates at that time is represented by wood balls placed at its scheduled stops. The piece is suspended by 300 blue threads, allowing the structure to be visible from all angles."

April 9 -May 23, 2010

Group Exhibition "Complification" at GAGA Art Center, lower Hudson Valley, NY
http://www.gagaartscenter.org