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Sediment: Mark Schatz and Jared Steffensen

Presented by space125gallery at Houston Arts Alliance at Houston Arts Alliance - Alliance Gallery (formerly space125gallery)

November 6, 2008-January 5, 2009

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space125gallery at Houston Arts Alliance presents the exhibition Sediment, featuring work by sculptors Mark Schatz and Jared Steffensen.

Sediment confronts the notions of both personal and geographical sediment, representing the visceral point at which nature and culture collide.

Landscape is a raw material that has been accumulated over time. It is geographically layered and represents an insight into the history and sediment of daily life.

Through natural periodical upheavals and societal disruptions it is re-ordered, shaken and resettled. Schatz and Steffensen's approach to Sediment parallels and transcends sociological boundaries and momentarily collides with viewers.

Moving and storage boxes (marked, worn, moth-eaten, taped and re-taped) are the catalyst for the works represented in space125gallery. As a raw material, the layers of cardboard accumulate and gradually silence the messages printed or scrawled on the previous layer. The artists' conscious use of color and attention to detail results in a fusion of connectivity through visual landscapes.

Mark Schatz is a Houston Arts Alliance Individual Artist Grantee. The Individual Artist Grant program represents just one of the many ways in which HAA supports Houston's artistic community. The City of Houston annually supports this and more than 200 additional arts grants.

space125gallery is located on the ground level of the Houston Center for the Arts, located at 3201 Allen Parkway (one block west of the intersection of Waugh and Allen Parkway).

Funding for space125gallery is provided by the City of Houston through the Houston Arts Alliance.