Salon Contra/Framework Panel: Rebecca Key

Great Salon Contra with artist Rebecca Key (speaking with film maker Nora Maccoby) who installed an amazing show at Transformer last week, which got a nice a review in the WaPo. Hope you get a chance to pop in and see it!

Transformer is proud to present Liverpool, UK based artist Rebecca Key in her first US solo exhibition. Rebecca creates installations that question the creative process and explore the background narrative of artists, artworks and galleries. In her work she references buildings where galleries are housed, their social contexts and their associated preconceptions.

With Archetype, Rebecca investigates the design of Transformer's gallery space, and the worldwide use of white walls and grey floors to create gallery spaces. An accomplished Art Director for British film and television, Rebecca will apply set dressing techniques used in her professional career to look at how Transformer may have once appeared in its previous form. Taking reference from the exterior walls of the buildings surrounding Transformer, one of Transformer's gallery walls will be layered with specialized paint techniques, textures and props, to appear like the alleyway it once was.

Video edited by Ethan Hicks.