Lisa Cooley is currently hosting the Solo Exhibition entitled," We Care About You" until June 27th.
The artist Andy Coolquitt, is a Texas born artist, living and working between New York City and Austin.
"We Care About You" is a show of sculptural installations, made up of found objects and materials such as couch cusions, light-bulbs, wire, ceramic figurines, lighters and push pins.
The work immediately references a DaDa sensibility with its reoccurring adoption of not only salvaged materials but their orientational reference to house hold items. Pieces like, "attainable excellence" feel much like a standing floor lamp or coat hanger, leaning vertically against the gallery wall with a stem of three lights at the top and one arm extended closer to the floor. The "installation" of objects is characterized by a propped-against-a-wall-composition, encompassing all but approximately five pieces in the entire show.
This loose and repeated organizational pattern of propping, does perhaps reinforce an interest in how objects interact with interior space. The one room design and slight dilapidation of the Lisa Cooley gallery floors call out to images of an old attic or playroom. The space feels relatively full to a viewer who must consciously maneuver around the hanging piping and lift shoes above connecting power cords.
Although seemingly junky, the aesthetic of the work remains relatively minimal. Coolquitt's objects are lively and playful; constructed with a childlike curiosity and calculated ignorance toward functionality making, "We Care About You" a pleasantly lightweight discovery in the China Town gallery scene.
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