September 30 - November 4, 2023
From Ro2 Art:
“In 98% Air, Douglas R Dover experiments with reframing molded polystyrene packaging, or Styrofoam, as a contemporary artifact to consumer culture. By taking Styrofoam out of its traditional context as a packing material and recontextualizing it in a gallery setting, Dover imbues the material with a sense of importance, significance, and weight that contrasts with the material’s throwaway nature and physical quality of lightness. Layering soft colors of translucent plastics over Styrofoam packaging, these works take on a formal, abstract quality. There is an ethereal, precision and beauty to Dover’s assembled works that forces a reconsideration of the object, its current function, and, more broadly, our interactions with throwaway, consumable materials.”
Reception: September 30, 2023 | 7–10 pm
1501 South Ervay Street
Dallas, 75215 TX
(214) 803-9575
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