Weston Lyon: New Twin
January 16 — February 14, 2016
Opening Reception: Saturday, January 16, 2016, 6-9 pm

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Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is excited to present the first exhibition of 2016, New Twin, an installation by Weston Lyon:

New Twin is an unresolved stasis between high and low. It is 192 taut connections, and the project is tailored towards a material discovery that can then shift, expand, and recede as the coherence of its construction begets the enduring qualities of its installation. From the bond with paved floor rising to an atomic crux, each anchored, magnetic unit of the work exercises a variance in strength, distance, and surface texture. These floating connections produce a replicated “surface” in total, one belonging beneath the median and the other belonging above. This horizon sits centered in the gallery space.

Peripheral concerns lie in passing light and the centrality of the work to its room and illuminating sources. As Roy Sorensen defines a shadow to be a gradient of light bodies and their absences, New Twin’s position against revolving light casts a penumbral plane over its enclosure.¹ Here, the occluded shape takes form–the projection of an unseen essence. The scattered pattern of black line and node blur into unified nothingness, at once belonging to the parent network yet free as an extensional imprint of escaping density.

In a system of invisible, coupling relationships, how are steps taken from observing the work’s magnetic minutia to seeing a greater reflecting mass within the lived environment? By contrast, does definition reveal itself in the rhizomatic form seen by a viewer from one corner of the room, as light cuts through the piece and onto them, or is the work’s rubric of something more receptive to a populated middle ground in the apparatus? New Twin looks to address this oscillation between one and many, and in doing so, locate the viewer against an inexhaustible architecture of wire and pull.

1. Sorensen, Roy A. Seeing Dark Things: The Philosophy of Shadows. New York: Oxford UP, 2008. 72. Print.

About:

Weston Lyon’s practice stems from film and video, its metaphorical roles and limitations. Recent work has dealt with the defined scale of Global Coherence within cognitive science as well as humanity’s ongoing slide into a post-lingual scenario. Lyon is an MFA candidate at Art Center College of Design and the co-founder of Pair Shaped. He is based in Los Angeles but originates from Texas.