SCI-Arc Design Faculty Exhibit in 2015 C.O.L.A. Fellowship Show at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

SCI-Arc design faculty Herwig Baumgartner and Scott Uriu, principals of B+U, and Marcelyn Gow, principal of servo los angeles, are exhibiting their work in the 2015 C.O.L.A. Fellowship group exhibition which opens May 17 at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG). The three designers are among eleven winners of the Individual Artist Fellowships awarded annually by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs to recognize work in a wide array of creative fields including architecture, design, writing, sound art and photography.

The exhibition includes a new installation by Gow entitled Semblances, incorporating translations between images and objects that produce a fusion between architectural form and forms that appear to be constructed natures. The project is focused on creating gaps in perception that challenge what can be construed, or misconstrued, to be either real or fictive.

Baumgartner and Uriu are exhibiting their project Apertures, which reflects on the current architectural discourse of digital ecologies, leading to a new type of interactive, organic building. The installation focuses on a symbiotic relationship between nature, building morphologies, and material expression, producing an estrangement of the architectural envelope in relation to the body of the viewer.

Also exhibiting in the 2015 C.O.L.A. Fellowship exhibition are Miyoshi Barosh, Kelly Barrie, Jeff Colson, Alexandra Grant, Harold Greene, Sherin Guirguis, Elizabeth Leister, Alan Nakagawa, and Barbara Strasen. The exhibition is curated by Scott Canty.