www.raphaeleshirley.com                                                                                                                                                                 Come one, come all!                                                                                                                                                                 The party for my girlfriend Raphaele's solo show is this Friday, April 4, from 6pm to ??? on 537 Broadway, 2nd floor, just north of Spring St.See blurb at the bottom of this post.                                                          We'd love to see you there!                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              Trains: R/W to Prince 6 to Spring & Lafayette B/D/F/V to B'way Lafayette.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       Best,-Kris Cheppaikode  646-675-1465   chepps@gmail.com "Sci-fi archaeology at its most evocative…video and sculpture transport visitors into a mesmerizing world,a visionary landscape of confounding proportions.                                                                                                            Raphaele Shirley exposes archetypal representations of space, time and emotion as they exist in our conscious and unconscious mind. Using a rule-based “Psychedelic Documentation,” she systematically studies, copies, interprets and transforms a fixed set of collected shapes (Styrofoam packaging) using diverse art practices such as sculpture, photography, video documentation and painting. This process has generated a wide array of works, ranging from organic and naïf to highly formal and mechanical.  A constant switching of interpretative mediums has caused “crossovers,” where the photographs tend towards sculptures, the videos became photographic, and the sculptures videographic etc. The resulting pieces create a narrative, a fictional archeology of form, a lexicon of shifting dimensions.                                                                                                                                                                                                                       In the “Sunken City” series, she combines her practices into a multi-media, abstract landscape of uncertain scale and timeframe. With this new series Shirley is exploring space, place and structure, loosely implying utopian environments of awe-inspiring proportions. In this she is exploring new perspectives in which we can consider our collective future, as well as charting the less tangible dynamics between entropy and order, and the fragmentation of perception through time."