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Approximations
Henry Urbach Architecture / 526 West 26th Street, New York
Press Release / December 7, 2002- January 25, 2003
Henry Urbach Architecture is pleased to announce two solo exhibitions: Out of Memory by Marsha Cottrell and Approximations by Steve Robinson. Each show steps into the computer and out again to present a particular intersection of bodies, technologies, and space. Cottrell's finely crafted digital drawings take us into a kaleidoscopic realm animated by speed, repetition, and morphing. Robinson, in turn, considers the entropic underside of technocracy with an installation that explores obsolescence and the imperfect mirroring of humans and machines.
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Steve Robinson will wrap gallery two in a pixellated mural that shows how an obsolete computer modeling would have rendered the room's surfaces if they were made of pink polystyrene. Within this low-res space, he will install a group of polystyrene sculptures that evoke increasingly advanced generations of humanoid robots. Robinson takes two-dimensional drawings of the robots from the Internet and extrudes them into bulky, three-dimensions objects at 1:1 scale. They carry soccer balls as evidence of an ongoing research project sponsored by Sony to create robots that can beat world-class human soccer players by the year 2050.
Robinson received his MFA from Yale University in 1995 and has exhibited in Germany and the United States, most recently at White Columns.