Big Orbit - Exhibition Opening

BENEATH / SUSPICION  Excerpts from the notebook of T.D.H. Castle-Tunnel Master 2nd Class an immersive installation by GARY SCZERBANIEWICZ winner of big orbit's 2012 members' exhibition      opening reception SATURDAY, APRIL 27 from 8-11p.m.  BIG ORBIT GALLERY 30d essex street buffalo, new york 14213 712-4355    Sczerbaniewicz's practice involves an insatiable fascination with interior and often, uncanny architectural spaces such as tunnels, mineshafts, catacombs, sewers, fallout shelters, basements, crawlspaces, confessional booths, and myriad other forms of Subterranea. This passion articulates itself in the form of immersive installations and various other two and three-dimensional strategies (drawings, models, videos, etc.). The work asserts and demonstrates the connections between these spaces and their historical, psychological, sociological, or political stratas. Sczerbaniewicz states, "I seek to disorient the viewer in an attempt to break the staid and often detached, passive, and familiar approach to consuming artworks. I believe that it is only in this hermetic space where authentic communication between artist and viewer occurs. To this end I employ tactics of individual viewer experience, physical engagement (such as compelling the spectator to crawl, crouch, lay, or adopt an atypical posture within a viewing space), and use of scale shifts."    Vignette, 2010, mixed media installation/performance   Gary Sczerbaniewicz received his BFA in mixed media aculpture from Alfred University in 1995.  He will complete his MFA from the University of Buffalo's Visual Studies Department this May.  Beneath/Suspicion is Gary's MFA Thesis Exhibition, and continues a long history of technically masterful and psychologically impactful installations and performances. The exhibition runs through June 9, 2013