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Fictional Neighbors


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Fictional Neighbors

Gerard Williams

March 2 - April 2, 2007

Parker's Box is proud to present: Fictional Neighbors, an exhibition of a new body of works by British artist, Gerard Williams

In Fictional Neighbors, the artist has made a new series of "windows", floating with even stronger ambiguity between what the artist has fabricated, found, modified, transformed, or simply acquired "off the shelf" from a supplier. In this way, Williams's recipe for this new series of works mixes sculptural trompe l'oeil with the ready-made, appropriation with subtly incorporated fine craftsmanship, as well as artistic license with what could even be seen as stirrings of a kind of social super-realism. This mixture is sprinkled with a good deal of poetry and humor and held together by an intriguing subtext of partly ironic inquiry into the nature of wall-based, "gallery art", and its history.

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Exhibition view of Fictional Neighbors, 2007, Parker's Box


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Salem (from the "Fictional Neighbors" Series), 2007, mixed media, 21 3/4 x 15 x 5 inches (55 x 38 x 12.5 cm)


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Salem (from the "Fictional Neighbors" Series), 2007, mixed media, 21 3/4 x 15 x 5 inches (55 x 38 x 12.5 cm)


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Exhibition view of Fictional Neighbors, 2007, Parker's Box


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Centerville (from the "Fictional Neighbors" Series), 2007, mixed media, 31 3/4 x 17 x 5 1/4 inches (80.5 x 80.5 x 11 1/2 cm)


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Exhibition view of Fictional Neighbors, 2007, Parker's Box


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Exhibition view of Fictional Neighbors, 2007, Parker's Box


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Exhibition view of Fictional Neighbors, 2007, Parker's Box


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Lexington (from the "Fictional Neighbors" Series), 2007, mixed media, 48 1/4 x 17 x 2 1/4 inches (122.5 x 43 x 6 cm)


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Springfield (from the "Fictional Neighbors" Series), 2007, mixed media, 17 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (44 x 44 x 14 cm)


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Springfield (from the "Fictional Neighbors" Series) [detail], 2007, mixed media, 17 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 5 1/2 inches (44 x 44 x 14 cm)


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Exhibition view of Fictional Neighbors, 2007, Parker's Box


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Madison (from the "Fictional Neighbors" Series), 2007, mixed media, 32 x 22 x 4 3/4 inches (81 x 56 x 12 cm)


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Madison (from the "Fictional Neighbors" Series) [detail], 2007, mixed media, 32 x 22 x 4 3/4 inches (81 x 56 x 12 cm)


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Midway (from the "Fictional Neighbors" Series), 2007, mixed media, 12 1/2 x 42 1/02 x 3 3/4 inches (31.5 x 108 x 9.5 cm)


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Midway (from the "Fictional Neighbors" Series), 2007, mixed media, 12 1/2 x 42 1/02 x 3 3/4 inches (31.5 x 108 x 9.5 cm)


Artist:

Gerard Williams


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