Amplified Flowers
Amplified Flowers
by Daina Shobrys
October 2 - October 19, 2014
chashama 300
300 West 30th Street (at 8th Avenue)
New York, NY
Exhibit on view from street 24/7.
Amplied Flowers is an ordinary sidewalk flower shop morphed into an installation of flower sculptures 12 times life size. The exhibit will include 5 varieties of Sunflowers 4 to 5 feet across, a dozen different Pansies and 30 Sweet Peas representing 10 species.
The exaggerated scale makes it possible to portray real, individual blossoms in exhausting detail, both in appearance and structure. It also celebrates their weirdness - the thousand parts of a sunflower’s center and the fact that the throat of a pansy resembles a vagina dentata. Making colorful and ironic use of industrial and consumer plastics - plastic banner fabric, tablecloths, lanyard lacing, cable ties, wheels, yarn and pvc pipe - the artist captures the ephemeral with materials that are cheap, durable and ubiquitous.
About the artist:
Daina Shobrys lives and works in New York City and Long Eddy, NY where she has always grown very large and strange flowers. She has a B.A. from Occidental College, and attended the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Sculptures in this “Plastic Flowers” series have been shown at Lehman College Art Gallery, Casa Frela Gallery, chashama 461 Gallery and Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.
See more work at dainashobrys.com. For more information or to schedule an interview or a private tour, please contact: (917) 952-9622 or email dainashobrys@gmail.com.
by Daina Shobrys
October 2 - October 19, 2014
chashama 300
300 West 30th Street (at 8th Avenue)
New York, NY
Exhibit on view from street 24/7.
Amplied Flowers is an ordinary sidewalk flower shop morphed into an installation of flower sculptures 12 times life size. The exhibit will include 5 varieties of Sunflowers 4 to 5 feet across, a dozen different Pansies and 30 Sweet Peas representing 10 species.
The exaggerated scale makes it possible to portray real, individual blossoms in exhausting detail, both in appearance and structure. It also celebrates their weirdness - the thousand parts of a sunflower’s center and the fact that the throat of a pansy resembles a vagina dentata. Making colorful and ironic use of industrial and consumer plastics - plastic banner fabric, tablecloths, lanyard lacing, cable ties, wheels, yarn and pvc pipe - the artist captures the ephemeral with materials that are cheap, durable and ubiquitous.
About the artist:
Daina Shobrys lives and works in New York City and Long Eddy, NY where she has always grown very large and strange flowers. She has a B.A. from Occidental College, and attended the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Sculptures in this “Plastic Flowers” series have been shown at Lehman College Art Gallery, Casa Frela Gallery, chashama 461 Gallery and Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park.
See more work at dainashobrys.com. For more information or to schedule an interview or a private tour, please contact: (917) 952-9622 or email dainashobrys@gmail.com.
