• IAN PEDIGO: Left in the Open Terraces
  • October 10 - November 15, 2008
  • Opening Reception: Friday, October 10 (7-10PM)

  • 65GRAND is pleased to present Ian Pedigo in his second solo show with the gallery. Featuring two and three dimensional collage and assemblage made from found and industrial materials, Pedigo leverages there disarming fragility to focus attention on the works construction. These works don't just stand-they hold sway.

  • The sites and spaces he engineers straddle several dimensions. Points of mountain peaks and rims of water towers are opaquely referenced, but by resizing these natural and urban landscapes, Pedigo shrinks them down to a more human scale. His ingenuity and vision transform plastic cups, sheets of plastic, and cast concrete into delicately balanced, neatly organized geometries.

  • His nuanced constructions are often embellished with faded and dated scraps of magazines, newspaper clippings, and stickers. These faintly nostalgic bits of narrative infuse the otherwise rough-hewn edges and refined surfaces of Pedigo's modernist structures with a hybridity that is both fluid and discrete.

  • As works in the exhibition nonchalantly lean against walls, lie on floors and balance layer upon interlocking layer, their very frailty is strategically exploited, transforming it into a strength. Strength built of precision and pragmatism to get these things off the ground.

  • Ian Pedigo was born in Anchorage, Alaska; he lives and works in Long Island City, New York. He earned his M.F.A. from the University of Texas at Austin and has had solo shows at Pianissimo, Milan and Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn, by whom he is represented. His long list of group shows includes exhibitions at Peter Blum, New York, D'amelio Terras, New York, and Freight and Volume Gallery, New York. Concurrently, Pedigo is exhibiting in the group show The Gentle Art of Collapsing the Expanded Field at Atelier Cardenas Bellanger, Paris.
  • Pedigo's work has been written about in publications including Artforum, Frieze, Art News, Art Review, The New York Times, Time Out New York, and New City Chicago.