Urban|3.0

Pam Frederick and Veronica Szalus
Curated by Craig Cahoon

Wednesday, June 21 through Saturday, July 15th, 2023

Pam Frederick and Veronica Szalus are launching their third installation revolving around the urban environment. This is a continuation of a theme that began with their first project, Urban|Remix in 2022. Their collaboration explores a dynamic combination of free-formed organic shapes, color, dissected images, and dimensional intersections. Using graphics printed on present-day cardboard packaging for consumer goods, windows are built into what we consume, transforming this action from individual moments to a collective collage exploding with color that examines how and what we consume.

Frederick’s seven-foot-long sculptural mural, Somewhere in the City, is composed of found cardboard with cut-outs, papers and mixed media to create a 3-D effect.

In Urban|3.0, Veronica Szalus dramatically deconstructs large-scale cardboard boxes in way-up to create a dimensional dialogue in curved forms that radiate from the floor to the ceiling.

Frederick and Szalus’ work riffs in a call and response to these discarded materials and consumer waste challenges. Throughout the exhibit, the artists invite the viewer to consider the interconnectedness among urban consumption through re-contextualized consumable packaging that surround us and through a re-purposed cycle allows the viewer to become a witness to materials that can sometimes even seem to consume us.