The contemporary art opening is located at The Box gallery, 765 Saint Clair Ste B, Costa Mesa CA 92626.
The exhibit will run through October 4, 2008.
Opening hours: August 16, 7-10 PM
Gallery hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 1-8 PM

The Box Gallery is showcasing works by artists Matt Linares and Ted von Heiland. This exhibit features both paintings and sculptures which explore what it means to be human and the delicate relationship between machine and man.

In Thus Spake Zarathustra, philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche expresses the need for man to create something beyond himself--the super man--the zenith of human progression. Artists Matt Linares and Ted von Heiland approach this charge with technosophical whimsy. Set after a technological singularity has occurred, where the machines we create can improve and re-create themselves, the images fashioned by these two artists seem distilled of dreams. “This is an exhibition,” says curator Johnny Sampson, “where the intimate and the grotesque embrace. These artists have taken machines, breathed life into them, and shaped the alternative Übermensch. Yet in this rendition of the story, confronted with mechanical mortality, the machines become, in many ways, more human than ourselves”.

San Francisco artist, Matt Linares, manipulates narrative and the subconscious into playful yet poignant dreamscapes. Using images of advanced machinery composed of wood and other un-technological materials, Linares sets up an unsettling symbolic dichotomy where nightmare and childlike fantasy merge. His paintings evoke an innocent sense of wonder as technology becomes self-aware of both its power and its limitations.

Los Angeles based artist Ted von Heiland’s, sometimes grotesque yet always sublime, sculptures reveal an intricate humanity beneath a cyberpunk aesthetic. Tender, comical, or horrific, his works juxtapose industrial isolation and introspective intimacy to elicit a cathartic empathy from the viewer. His mixed media sculptures are both challenging and familiar as they try to resolve technology and nature into a curious harmony.

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