Lori Hepner

Code Words is a series of photographic prints based upon performances of binary code destructing as dyed silk in bleach. The play between organic materials that have been mass-produced and the contradiction of their representation of digital information is a paradox that has been built into the work.  The single photographs of the silk and code dissolving are the representations of the “one” in the encoded translation of the title while the empty containers that hold a quantity of bleach showcase the zero.  The first word in each title is translated into code onto the silk, while the second word in each title represents the layout of the “ones” and “zeros” in the final composition.  The doubly encoded translation becomes each piece in the Code Words series.

Jennifer Williams

My work is concerned with a “desire to recycle and build”, in order to engage the viewer in overlooked moments from the everyday. It utilizes haphazardly piled debris which routinely materializes as temporary curbside “installations” before being dismantled and destroyed the next morning as “trash”. These moments become the raw material for my work; their shapes and colors become a language of marks that transcend their origins and purpose. Through the use of meticulously cut out compositions, wheat-pasted street interventions, and monotone photographic drawings (cyanotypes), my work creates a language freed from gravity which addresses space as it changes though time in relationship to urban renewal/disinvestment, and the anxiety of gentrification.