Time Shift

Joey Piziali's art centers on one of the few things that can withstand the ravages of time and still remain beautiful: an aging city. Using paint, tape, billboard paper, wood, and metal, the pieces in his exhibit "Spatial Disruption" evoke the layering of materials that old walls submit to through the years. But on top of this he places geometric, sometimes psychedelic bursts of color, banded together like sharp rainbows streaming across the sky or grouped in rough molecular shapes. It's a cross between the slow, messy decay of urban life and the crisp, impossibly fast trajectories of unhinged thought, with a hint of future worlds.
March 22-31, 2008