Gregory Kucera’s video and
photographically-based works, titled
Tessellation Anxiety (a reference to the
cubes present) display keen wit and
conceptual complexity. The centerpiece
here is a four monitor video installation in
which the four sides of an intersection in
downtown Los Angeles are presented
simultaneously. Pedestrians pass by and
cars move through the intersection. All at
once, as if from nowhere, a figure floats
though the space. Gregory Kucera, "Eyeballer #5," 2003, ultra-
chrome print face-mounted on Plexiglas, 44 x 90".
All four images rotate 180 degrees, and we view the same scenario upside down. Kucera is interested in information overload
and the small details that make each scene or setting different. He pairs his video work with a cube-shaped sculpture that
physically presents all four sides of the intersection as well as a photographic work that reduces the colors in the video to an
abstract linear composition. These works are presented in relation to a second videotape of a woman sitting in a chair in the
corner of a room. The setting changes as if someone was clicking on a remote, and we see in turn various backgrounds go
floating by. Kucera has paired this tape with a series of wall works in which the dot pattern of a halftone image of the scene
depicted in the video is drilled into a piece of white plexiglass so as to make a three dimensional photograph (Angles Gallery,