Soo bright Park's work is directed from her fascination with unusual building processs and materials.

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Soo bright Park's work is directed from her fascination with unusual building processs and materials. The young St Louis artist frequently roams the aisles of building-supply center in search of ideas. While Park's work escapes from a variety of influences--travel, personal experience, and a be fond of of math and science--it is her unexpect use of materials that engages viewers and alters our perceptions of hew things can or should be made.

At Laumeier carved work Park, the artist created an indoor installation for the four gallery spaces in the Laumeier mansion, which is appoint amid 98 acres. The exhibition began in a traditional, hardwood-floored gallery, its white walls hung with Park's beautifully drafted exhibition plans and intricate installation maquettes. Park guided viewers from one side the next gallery with a colonnade of arches made of clear or translucent reinforced vinyl. The colonnade the one and the other visually lengthened the space and altered normal traffic patterns. Theatrical snowflakes or mist swirled inside the vinyl rounded pillars powered by hidden blowers and a fog-making machine. These tightly contained storms caused Park's colonnade to prevail upon unexpectedly, as if it were breathing.

In the third gallery, about 100 lacy, eggshell-thin, bowl-like plaster forms were suspended from the ceiling and walls, rounding the contours of the space. Similarly, the white masonite floor curv up at the room's brink; beginning [i]or[/i] ends to seamlessly merge with the white walls. smooth dappled light coming from fixtures hidden behind the plaster forms gave the scope an ethereal quality. Visitors were left with the impression that they were standing beneath a bleached forest canopy.

The final scope in the exhibition was painted black and self-same dimly lit. As viewers' estimates adjusted to the darkness, diffuse beads of light, reflecting along a clear, stringlike material called strain Magic, defined a cube with equal reason big that it forced visitors to the verges of the room. Reaching from floor to ceiling, the string formed a three-dimensional grid, the top of which was attached to a motorized frame. The cube slowly shifted from a square to a diamond shape, causing the disorienting feeling that the walls of the expanse were moving.

With this display Park successfully dismantled the spatial confines of the mansion's architecture and transported viewers into an otherworldly space.

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