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WIDE WIDE RUIN
Jonathan Runcio
Runcio’s new work expands on his exploration of the contemporary ruins that make up his surroundings. He references a variety of sources including piles of concrete remnants in the lot adjacent to his studio, geometric designs that adorn garage doors near his home and examples of California Modernism in L.A. and the Bay Area. Comprised of screen-printed paintings, architectural blueprints, concrete objects and steel sculptures the installation presents all new work by Runcio. Included in the space are green serpentine stones - chunks of Irish Hill - which had been leveled to form The Dogpatch neighborhood- to acknowledge the history of the changed landscape in which Runcio maintains his studio. For this exhibition Runcio has concerned himself with place and the entropic nature of man-made urban landscapes. In this body of work he repurposes and abstracts the anodyne forms of eroding architecture to consider the lofty ambitions of modernism and its failure and decay.