11.08 – 11.08
Exhibition

Crudity

ParticipantsCody Miner︎︎︎

Crudity attempts to formalize a new primitive, rudimentary in form and unrefined in surface treatment. The study includes four figural monoliths thickly troweled in paper mulched-plaster and  wrapped in finely knit sweaters, each portraying a material graphic representative, concrete, wood, terrazzo and brick.  To curate the work, we treat the forms as taxidermy, looking to the Greek derivation of the term, translating to “arrangement of skin.” Here the artist or architect then becomes the trophy hunter, displaying his recent hunt in various ways, positioned in an action pose or unrolled and flattened, each exploring the arrangement of skins as layers with various degrees of graphic crudeness.

Cody Miner is a Los Angeles-based designer. Previously, he held a position as assistant faculty at SCI-Arc. He holds a Master of Architecture from Southern California Institute of Architecture and a Bachelor of Interdisciplinary Studies with a focus on Urban Planning and Design from Arizona State University.

He has worked professionally in Los Angeles producing both speculative and realized projects. At Zago Architecture, he worked on “A New Federal Project” for the US Pavilion at the 2016 Venice Biennale, as well as the VPAC facade wall for the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial. Currently he is building his own practice SEMIFIRM, where the interest lies in the parallels between art and architecture.