Soo Sunny Park at Laumeier Sculpture Park - St. Louis - art exhibition, Missouri

Soo sunshiny Park's work is directed by dint of her fascination with unusual building rules and materials. The young St Louis artist oftentimes roams the aisles of building-supply center in search of ideas. While Park's work rise s from a variety of influences--travel, personal experience, and a delight in of math and science--it is her unexpect use of materials that engages viewers and alters our perceptions of hew things can or should be made.

At Laumeier plastic art Park, the artist created an indoor installation for the four gallery spaces in the Laumeier mansion, which is put amid 98 acres. The exhibition began in a traditional, hardwood-floored gallery, its white walls hung with Park's beautifully drafted exhibition plans and intricate installation maquettes. Park guided viewers end the next gallery with a colonnade of arches made of clear or translucent reinforced vinyl. The colonnade one as well as the other visually lengthened the space and altered normal traffic patterns. Theatrical snowflakes or haze swirled inside the vinyl round pillars powered by hidden blowers and a fog-making machine. These tightly contained storms caused Park's colonnade to put in motion unexpectedly, as if it were breathing.

In the third gallery, about 100 lacy, eggshell-thin, bowl-like plaster forms were suspended from the ceiling and walls, rounding the contours of the space. Similarly, the white masonite floor curv up at the room's cutting sides to seamlessly merge with the white walls. yielding dappled light coming from fixtures hidden behind the plaster forms gave the expanse an ethereal quality. Visitors were left with the impression that they were standing beneath a bleached forest canopy.

The final sweep in the exhibition was painted black and actual dimly lit. As viewers' organ of visions adjusted to the darkness, diffuse beads of light, reflecting not upon a clear, stringlike material called tighten Magic, defined a cube for a like reason big that it forced visitors to the cutting sides of the room. Reaching from floor to ceiling, the string formed a three-dimensional grid, the top of which was attached to a motorized frame. The cube slowly shifted from a square to a diamond shape, causing the disorienting feeling that the walls of the swing were moving.

With this display Park successfully dismantled the spatial confines of the mansion's architecture and transported viewers into an otherworldly space.

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