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House of Seiko•Jun 29, 2024 — Aug 11, 2024
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Cross Lypka is the moniker for Tyler Cross and Kyle Lypka, long-time partners and artistic collaborators. Their working process in ceramic follows a practical exchange of tasks. Tyler draws a lexicon of visual forms, Kyle interprets and hand-builds from this repertoire, they edit, Tyler glazes, and Kyle fires. Lastly, subtle surface treatments and sealants are applied. The works that emerge reflect this back-and-forth trade, in partnership with the material’s own desires and constraints.
What does it mean to take something porous, imperfect, shrinking, warping, issue-filled… and adapt it to the rigidity of an archi-tecture?
For this exhibition, the pair have pivoted to making works in response to the space’s structural conditions. Rather than enlarging existing forms in the practice, they created segmented sculptures with systems of repeated components. One can imagine these objects stretching or multiplying themselves across a room; expanding the intervals between...More
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Tarantula
House of Seiko•Jun 29, 2024 — Aug 11, 2024
Press release
Cross Lypka is the moniker for Tyler Cross and Kyle Lypka, long-time partners and artistic collaborators. Their working process in ceramic follows a practical exchange of tasks. Tyler draws a lexicon of visual forms, Kyle interprets and hand-builds from this repertoire, they edit, Tyler glazes, and Kyle fires. Lastly, subtle surface treatments and sealants are applied. The works that emerge reflect this back-and-forth trade, in partnership with the material’s own desires and constraints.
What does it mean to take something porous, imperfect, shrinking, warping, issue-filled… and adapt it to the rigidity of an archi-tecture?
For this exhibition, the pair have pivoted to making works in response to the space’s structural conditions. Rather than enlarging existing forms in the practice, they created segmented sculptures with systems of repeated components. One can imagine these objects stretching or multiplying themselves across a room; expanding the intervals between...More
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