Drop Shadow
24th August- 29th September 2013
Opening Friday August 23rd 7pm
Drop Shadow is an exhibition of new work by artists James Hoff and Anders Smebye. Hoff will cut open the walls of the gallery in a physical rendering of the processes of the Robert Morris Worm, the first destructive internet virus to propagate ‘in the wild’. Smebye will present an alphabet of two metre-tall runic figures cut from patinated, corroded metal and felted wool. The title of the show is a signwriter’s term for the painted shadow behind a letter, and Hoff and Smebye both, in different ways, work with text as physical material, language as image.
Anders Smebye (born 1975, Norway) was educated at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UdK in Berlin and Statens Kunstakademi in Oslo, where he graduated in 2004. Recent solo exhibitions include I´m Not Here at SINNE in Helsinki, Finland, Dor er Dor at Gallery D.O.R. in Brussels, Belgium and Vinland at Galeria Valenzuela Klenner in Bogotá, Colombia. He was the founder and director of the project space Bastard in Oslo (2005-10), and a member of the artist collective The Parallel Action from 2009-11. Smebye lives and works in Berlin and Oslo.
James Hoff (born 1975, USA) received his BA in Political Science from Indiana University in 1998 and has been working with sound and performance since 2003. His recent solo exhibitions include Milking the Flat Cow at Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, and I’m Already a Has-Been at VI, VII in Oslo. Hoff is also co-founder (with Miriam Katzeff) of Primary Information, a non-profit publisher devoted to printing artists’ books and multiples by artists.
Drop Shadow is supported by Billedkunstnernes Vederlagsfond.