Cal Crawford, 'POSSIBILI-TIESOFFISTS,' 2009, installation view.

The perceptual shifts induced by Cal Crawford’s installation “POSSIBILITIESOFFISTS” force you to keep moving around the gallery. Proclaiming itself a “perverted memorial” to linear perspective, Crawford throws a ramped up arsenal of disjunctive lines, strobe lights, color and music at the viewer from the moment you enter the space. Negotiating under low hung Daniel Buren striped banners you move to the eye stabbing flutter of too bright video monitors that show short vertical stripped panels that appear to spin in empty space. There is a sense of disjunction and lost rhythm to all the black and white visual repetition. Vivid colors being flashed on a back wall compete with their own timing and the blare of loud music. Yet when you stand looking back at the black and white stripes that hang at different distances and heights near the front door, the after-image radiance from all the vertical lines turns out to be quite beautiful (Sister, Chinatown).

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