Jorge Pardo
September 27- October 25, 2014

Jorge Pardo is famous for blurring the line between art and life. His work examines and redefines the thresholds between art, architecture, design, and utility. A sense of playfulness runs through his highly aestheticized body of work, which has been exhibited far and wide. His site-specific work for Front Gallery is an arrangement of individually cut and painted MDF shapes that were made at his studio in Mexico. The cartoonish mechanical shapes are much like paintings, which to Pardo are as functional as anything else.

Pardo’s range of work is immense--from everyday objects to grand interiors. In 1993 when he was invited to do an exhibition at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Pardo proposed to build a house, six miles away, and exhibit it as a work of art. He designed every element of 4166 Sea View Lane--lamps, furniture, tiles, garden, and cabinets.

4166 Sea View Lane was one of Pardo’s first works to capture the attention of the international art world. Today his work can be found in the world's most prestigious museums, and his permanent public projects can be seen around the world, including Pier, which he built for the 1997 Skulpture Projekte in Munster, and Mountain Bar, which he designed in 2003 for the Chinatown neighborhood in Los Angeles. In 2000, Pardo completely transformed the first floor of the DIA Art Foundation. The multifaceted project included a redesign of the lobby, the creation of a bookshop, and an exhibition in the reconfigured gallery.

The Cuban born artist divides his time between New York and Mérida, Mexico where he has spent the last seven years creating another sculpture-cum-residence. Tecoh lies on 740 acres deep in the northern Yucatán jungle, on the ruins of a 17th-century hacienda.

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