2 x 2 Solos: Cybele Lyle

October 30 - November 30 at Pro Arts' gallery.

Artist's Talk and Catalogue Release Party: Friday, November 16, 6pm

2 x 2 Solos is a series of solo exhibitions featuring new work commissioned from four accomplished emerging artists based in the Oakland/Bay Area. The program recognizes artistic excellence and supports the freedom to create challenging and noncommercial work.

Cybele Lyle explores the language of architecture through photography, video and installation. For 2 x 2 Solos Lyle generates… Show more Shifting Spaces (2012), a structural intervention in the gallery that investigates time, emotional presence and queer identity. Similar to an open book, three gypsum board walls - or portals - project into the gallery space. The text of this "book" is splayed and sliced, intersecting the surrounding area. Complementing the larger sculptural work is an actual artist book Shifting Spaces (2012). Not easily or rapidly read as queer, Lyles' work requires audience members to come close both physically and metaphorically. As a result our bodies are inserted in her ongoing investigation of space and subjectivity.

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