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Opening: Rebecca Key: Archetype

About This Event

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 context 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.

Rebecca states: “Previously, I’ve turned a gallery into an arts administration office, another into a group of artists’ studios and also another to look as though it was in-between exhibitions. Set dressing is a bit like drawing really, with objects, creating compositions in the gallery space that then become a critique of the whole building. The realities created with all the objects and paint techniques in that context can become convincing. This installation at Transformer will allow me to further explore, consider, and even expose, more stories from behind the creative process.”

After spending time researching in Washington DC, Rebecca will create her Archetype installation at Transformer with two highly experienced British colleagues from the film and television industry. Collaborating on the project are Scenic Artist Greg Winter (whose credits include Batman Begins, The Bourne Supremacy and Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and Art Director and Set Dresser Emma Dalton (various BBC, ITV, Channel 4 dramas, soaps, and children's television). Greg and Emma will carry out the physical ‘dressing’ of Transformer under Rebecca’s direction.