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For Immediate Release 10-03-06

ATTN:  Calendar, Art

Phantom Galleries Los Angeles is pleased to present:

LOOKING GLASS #10 an interactive video installation by Steve Shoffner

OPENING RECEPTION DURING DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES ART WALK
THURSDAY 14 SEPTEMBER
OPENING RECEPTION 6:00pm—9:00pm
Corner of 6th Street and Los Angeles CA, 90014 at The Pacific Electric Lofts

 

Produced in collaboration with Phantom Galleries Los Angeles, Looking Glass #10 is a video installation taking place in a vacant storefront in downtown Los Angeles’s Gallery Row. The exhibition will be housed in a corner window-front space in the Pacific Electric Lofts building at the intersection of Los Angeles Street and 6th Street next to Cole’s.

Looking Glass #10 is the most recent project within the Looking Glass series in which Steve explores the interactions between people and things in spaces where expectations and perceptions are askew. Due to the performative element in the work, he plays with the surrounding environment, sound and imagery, all of which are both virtual and actual. With the use of closed-circuit video cameras, false walls, and his own physical interaction, he sets up illusions for the viewer to negotiate the validity of real time and real space.

All of his installations aim to reenact scenarios where technology leaves us confused and disconnected. He is drawn to produce these mind provoking scenarios to exemplify the humor he finds in our dependency on technology. Like all of the Looking Glass series, Steve provides us with an experience of odd interaction and realization of the strange things that are around us.

Steve Shoffner is a Los Angles resident with a Masters of Fine Art from Claremont Graduate University.