James Greco: Tarp Paintings, Marissa Lee Benedict: I Come Apart

James Greco exudes a sophisticated understanding of the expressive and emotive powers of painting. His newest works are paintings on unstretched, flat tarps on which he rapidly and intuitively applies color from punctured spray paint cans, in a contemporary iteration of action painting.

Marissa Lee Benedict is interested in the relationships between natural earth systems and human stabilization technologies. She explores the inherent tension between the fundamentally variable and unstable nature of naturally occurring phenomena and the human need for predictable sustenance, reliable energy, and control over the natural world. The installation in our Project Room considers both the strength and the fragility of forms that rely on the logic of assembly, constructed of a raised, gridded data center floor with sound and video components.