PATTERN LANGUAGE

Over the past four years, Kenji Fujita, Fawn Krieger and Medrie MacPhee have been seeking to create new ways of working with rupture and wholeness in a time of cultural and political upheaval, continuously redefining boundaries as a strategy of adaptation and relocation. Their conversation has enabled them to find larger rhythms and corollaries in their shared vocabularies. The covid era impacts artists and art making in many ways; this exhibition shares one story of finding community in a time of dissolution and displacement.

If all the matter we can know makes up only 5% of the universe, how do we explain what holds us together, our earth, our ecosystem, our humanity, our community, our cells, our thoughts? What does it mean to go searching for the parts that make us whole, that together form something beyond their sum? Borrowing from the alphabetic and lyrical, Fujita, Krieger, and MacPhee assemble forms through unexpected connections, re-defining where and how we converge and operate in a shared terrain. In this constructive entropy, the artists locate a thin edge, where failure, revision and liberation coexist.

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The exhibition’s title is borrowed from the seminal 1976 publication, A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander and five co-authors which establishes a philosophy for the structures we inhabit using intuitive, social and emotional principals.

Kenji Fujita, Fawn Krieger and Medrie MacPhee are visual artists that work in painting, sculpture and related media. Fujita lives and works in Staatsburg, NY; Krieger and MacPhee live and work in Ridgewood, NY.

kenjifujita.com

fawnkrieger.com

medriemacphee.com

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Pattern Language, October 5th- November 4th, 2023

Opening Thursday, October 5th, 6-8 pm

IMPORTANT VISITOR INFO:

Platform is open Fridays and Saturdays, 12-6 pm. Our building now requires a QR code to enter.

Contact 917-426-8121 and we will send an individual QR code to your phone which you will need to enter the building. This QR code will be good all day.

 Platform Project Space 20 Jay Street #319 Brooklyn, NY 11201