Feb 22 - Apr 5, 2002

SPACES Gallery challenges you to look at marker caps and rubber bands in a whole new way as we present Building Supplies, on view from February 22 - April 5, 2002. This exhibition features large-scale artworks created from everyday items that will bring new meaning to "spring cleaning." SPACES also presents an exhibition of paintings and digital prints by Ohio artist Robt. E. Wood which explores the creative potential of computer viruses. Join us for an opening reception on Friday, February 22nd from 5-9pm. The opening event will also feature costumes by Akron artist Angela White, whose models mingle with visitors in clothing constructed from twist ties, grocery bags and more. The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.

Shane Carrico (Kent, OH) uses exhaust pipe tubing in his elaborate, industrial installations. The sculptural pipes connect mysterious metal boxes to form an environment resembling a futuristic factory. If it's products you're after, don't miss the work of Tim Kaulen (Pittsburgh, PA) who re-uses flashy imagery from commercially-printed billboards to examine consumer culture in his giant collages. Devorah Sperber (New York, NY) also examines material culture, creating photorealistic work from large numbers of unlikely materials: SPACES exhibits her lifelike oriental rug made entirely from marker caps and a mural-sized landscape created from thousands of spools of thread. Meanwhile David Wilson (Knoxville, TN) takes on abstraction, filling the front of the gallery with a wall installation made from carefully-placed colored rubber bands.

Also at SPACES, Robt. E. Wood (Kent, OH) reveals the consciousness of computers in his exhibition of paintings and large-scale digital prints, Return of the Repressed: Cyberlapsi and Lacunae. By corrupting computer files and allowing them to mutate into their own forms over the past two and a half years, Wood has made it possible to present digital imagery made without the use of controlled graphics programs, but created by the computer's own artificial intelligence set loose.

SPACES is a non-profit, artist-run, alternative space gallery. Since 1978, SPACES has given over 6,500 artists in the visual and performing arts an arena in which to present challenging new ideas. SPACES is located at 2220 Superior Viaduct on the West side of the Flats. Superior Viaduct runs parallel to the Detroit Superior Bridge at the intersection of West 25th Street.

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