Bari Ziperstein
Perk
July 25 –August 31, 2009
Online exhibition

See Line Gallery at the Pacific Design Center
September 24 –November 21, 2009

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

See Line Gallery presents Bari Ziperstein's solo exhibition ‘Perk.’ In her current photographic series, Ziperstein continues
with the investigation of America's consumer society and its material surplus. Particularly in the way domestic objects, retail
and storage spaces reflect socioeconomic strata.

In the photographic series “Perk,” Ziperstein visually complicates images of a Rose Bowl Flea market lamp vendor’s storeroom
by using techniques of collage in order to produce uncanny and fantastical images. The storeroom is cluttered with images of
piled up colorful second hand lamps, dusty disembodied lamp parts, and endless rows of hanging chandeliers – these images
are used as source material for intricate collage based photography. Ziperstein not only is interested in the vendor's storeroom
as a photographic site but also purchases lamps for many of her sculptures thus creating a
relationship between her photographic and sculptural objects.

Ziperstein's previous series of photographs of site-specific sculpture in her apartment (2006), replicated the quality of a
high-end magazine spread thus was a comment on the utopian lifestyles proffered by home decor magazines. The
photographs illustrated decoration consumed by architectural outgrowths - an interior design gone very much awry. The new
series 'Perk,’ does not rely on the architecture of the home as a platform of intervention.It's as if domestic lamps themselves
found a way to mutate and collide with out relying on the host of architecture as a support. Resulting in photographs which
waver between the fantastically absurdist and the consumers comfortably commonplace with domestic objects.

Bari Ziperstein, lives and works in Los Angeles, is a site-specific sculptor, photographer, collage, and ceramic artist who is
interested in activating spacethrough intervention and organization. Her artistic practice is engaged with the architectural history
of Los Angeles and can be read as an investigation of how urban landscapes are defined by consumerism. Ziperstein holds
herMFA from CalArts and double majored at Ohio University to receive a BFA inpainting and a Women’s Studies Degree.
Ziperstein currently has works featured in "Drama of the Gifted Child – The Five Year Plan" at the Armory Center for the Arts,
Pasadena and “Bitch is the New Black” curated by Emma Gray at Honor Fraser Gallery, Culver City.

“Perk” will be presented at the See Line Gallery space at the Pacific Design Center,
West Hollywood. September 24- November 21, 2009.