Caitlin Masley

Biography

marina city #5, 511 Gallery NYC
In my work, architecture is a model conception of possible worlds that would spur on a reconsidered organic architecture that would “grow” to suit the needs of the landscape and its inhabitants. This is the focus a new body of work to be explored within a mixed media outcome. Japanese Metabolist theories, abandoned buildings of Berlin and a housing complex in Shanghai are the basis of a series of site-specific works that “grow” in space.I am inspired by Lebbeus Woods' visionary drawings, Fortier's "dynamic urbanism", and Italo Calvino's descriptions of the "Invisible Cities"; I am revealing my own imagination of reconstructed cities beyond notions of history, nation or space -- offering "the lucidic interplay of maze-like surfaces, the
LMCC Swing Space NYC 2007, Portables
the fantasy of reordering, and the exalted pleasure of refusing the rigidity of another's plan." For example, building hybrids and crossing parallels between the favelas in Rio and the Toyko Capsule building, I am pushing further into ideas of “growing architecture”.

marina city 3, cohan and leslie gallery
Marina City #6, Zagreb Croatia 2006
"Bahnhauf" Future Nomad at Vox Popolli
For the last couple years I have been critically investigating the psychology of urban space in the culturally shaped and reconstructed landscapes of several international cities that I`ve traveled through. I am playing the reiventor, the new architect formulating an urban alternative and creating possibilities through the use of multiple medias. Monumental buildings and prototypes of modern architecture multiply themselves into kaleidoscopic or endlessly repeatable friezes here urban ideologies are turned into abstacted patterns. Inspired by Lebbus Wood`s visionary drawings and Italo Calvino`s descriptions of the 'Invisible Cities' I want to reveal my own reconstucted cities beyond notions of history, nation or space. I see architecture as a virus. I also delve into some of Karl Chu’s theories in the foundations of mathematics and philosophy. Along with metaphysics and the Metabolists basis of structure; there is an exploration into the conceptual space of evolutionary cosmology based on the metaphysics of computation. I explore possibilities of the visual outcome for a computational Monadology, “With the convergence of computation and genetics, he (Chu) believes that we are at the threshold of a brave new world that is unfolding before us and we have yet to develop an adequate theory of architecture that engages with the deep and profound ideas inherent in these issues, which is destined to transform the world unlike anything we have seen in the history of human civ
adequate theory of architecture that engages with the deep and profound ideas inherent in these issues, which is destined to transform the world unlike anything we have seen in the history of human civilization”. The final results being unique to every space, every wall drawing reconstructs the space and gives the illusion of structure, animated texture and architecture growing into and out of the building itself. This leads the viewer to imagine it growing into something else.
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out of the building itself. This leads the viewer to imagine it growing into something else. The viewer's perception is altered into becoming part of the space and rethinking where they actually are.By using multiple medias and projections to facilitate a mural size wall drawings and portable paper architecture structures, the viewer will be taken into a new site a reinvented site, the never ending possibility site. The installation becomes an atmosphere where the viewer can feel the evolving texture of structure.
Caitlin Masley
New York, NY
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Caitlin Masley
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York
Gallerie 5, Denmark
Caitlin Masley