Gary Sczerbaniewicz: The Tower and the Shard Virtual Exhibit at Dowd Gallery
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Dowd Gallery - SUNY Cortland
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(607) 753-4216
Virtual Exhibit courtesy of the Dowd Fine Arts Gallery
November 2020 - February 2021
Gary Sczerbaniewicz's practice involves both large-scale installation and small-scale objects referencing architectural environments interacting with the viewers on active as well as passive levels. These hybrid constructions inhabit an ambiguous space between architecture, man-made environments, installation, sculpture, and theatrical stagecraft, along with the artist's apparent fascination with psychological unease. His elaborate sculptural environments and dioramas, often enhanced by sound, create an immersive sensory experience designed to disorient the viewer to break the staid, often detached, and familiar approach to consuming artwork. Sczerbaniewicz's recent work investigates the concept of cognitive dissonance as articulated through an architectural lexicon to construct unfamiliar or fantastic scenarios. He often fuses imagery adopted from his recollection of the Cold War and Catholicism to amplify the unsettling, the weird, the eerie, and even the world of conspiracy theory. His practice becomes even more relevant in the light of a new reality effected by the global pandemic and the tenuous political climate embroidered with many threads of misinformation and untruths.