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Kristi Engle Gallery
5002 York Ave.
Highland Park, CA 90042
323.472.6237
kristi@kristienglegallery.com

Walsh uses symbolism in the work where utility would occur in commercial design. Pieces can seem like architectural models, but then expose drawers, sliding doors & other types of usable cabinetry. However, it is only an illusion of usefulness. Each door, drawer and spring holds within it, possibilities that are not made explicit by the artist.

(The title) phrase comes from a business strategist who has paraphrased a passage from the ancient Chinese military manual The Art of War by Sun Tzu. The idea is to take a language, an appearance, or a stratagem that has been forgotten, and re-formulate it in order to surprise the enemy.

The large floor works... emerged when I began researching Classical and Visionary architecture, 20th century bunkers, and post-18th century furniture design. Â These met my long-standing interests in automobile design (especially examples from the 1970s), modernist sculpture and architecture, cold-war era spacecraft, and science fiction.

Each of these sources, to a certain degree, is indebted to the tectonics, taxis, and aesthetics tied to the social legacies of Greek and Roman Classicism. ...I am interested in the slippage of perception that occurs between the apparently primitive or archaic form and the seemingly futuristic one. The sculptures are constructed forms that, I believe, engage the common ground that exists between the logics of the unique high art-object and the logics of the reproducible design-object." -KW

Kristi Engle Gallery devotes itself primarily to solo exhibitions of new works by contemporary artists. It is located in Highland Park, near the corner of Ave. 50 and York Blvd.