Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 29th, 6-9PM

In the parlor of a former Victorian Mansion near Rittenhouse Square, currently home to the offices of Michael Garden's real estate practice, Liu's installation will include numerous "drawings"; Mylar and paper constructions of minute architectural details in magnified scale. In a setting of Victorian architectural excess, Liu's minimal reliefs will serve as centering elements from which to begin to identify a more immediate sense of place, as well as launch pads pushing away from the period decoration and exuberance of one of the most embellished eras of American design and lifestyle.

Jacque Liu's thoughts on the project:

Travel plays an important role in my life. Much of my work stems from a desire to comprehend the notion of place. To understand place, my eye gravitates toward a microcosmic scale, often focusing on intimate architectural elements, such as windows, doors, vents, staircases, chairs.

My work, following my eye, becomes an abstraction of details within my encountered landscapes. The process is personal. I recast imprints of my history of places, but I also re-contextualize a history (whether real or imagined) of the object or site at hand.

Site feeds my ideas. While each idea changes its respective object or site, every work still retains a memory of what it was. The work for AREA 919 at CITYSPACE will focus on an abstraction of details through site-specific installation and drawing.

Exhibit runs through Friday, November 13th, 2010