Lars Arrhenius is an artist based in Stockholm whose serial, graphic installations and animations merge a diagrammatic narrative with a social narrative. This exhibition, his first in the United States, will include several large works where small cibachrome prints mounted on panels are placed in puzzle or map-like configurations, as well as a new digital animation.

Arrhenius often uses pictographs, the kind of stereotypical figures and universal symbols seen on public information signs. A direct use of media, and a judicious blend of austerity and irony are typical of his work. The digital characters in his animation, The Street, create an exaggerated view of daily routines, where each individual contributes to keep things going like an anonymous cog in the machine of life. Arrhenius’ hermetic but familiar world is propelled by a momentum of the mundane that insistently plods onward. In another work entitled Habitat, in which a five-floor house is represented by the stacked rows of 43 C-prints, we view a sequence in the lives of 10 people breaking down the archetypes and representing the possibility of personal choice and eccentricity.

Dawn Clements explores a world of interiors, arduously rendering either her own immediate environment in a series of detailed and expressive drawings or capturing the staged sets of films and soap operas by continually replaying and carefully observing them.

Her recent drawing, Travels with Myra Hudson, will span 46 feet in the Lower Gallery. This panoramic ink on paper depicts the many interior spaces that the main character inhabited in the 1952 film, “Sudden Fear”. The drawing reads as a series of large film cells or a storyboard with one scene leading to the next. Three smaller drawings focus on the connecting his & hers bedrooms which are in pivotal in the story. Notations and observations are drawn in the borders, like clues about an implied narrative dropped along the way. More on Dawn Clements.