For our first show here at alterspace we chose to exhibit the work of two emerging artists; Jason Hendrix and Stephen Eichhorn. While both artists work independently and have never collaborated, they have brought to the space a unique, dual vision that addresses formality, architectural memory, preservation and urban systems in contemporary art practice. In this show of works created during the first six weeks of 2005, both Hendrix and Eichhorn have invested their time in working together and independently, creating mutually reciprocal dynamics that communicate formally as well as conceptually.

Stephen Eichhorn's work is like that of a Situationist intervention. He has constructed a structural alteration that generates, at varying degrees, a veritable dissertation on utopian consciousness within an urban environment. With an ordered methodology of deconstruction, Eichhorn's work creates a complex and simultaneously macro space that challenges the viewer to navigate its hyper-terrain with only fragments of an architectural memory.

Jason Hendrix is concerned with the ways in which defeatist structures, exemplified by the production of atomic weapons during the WWII industrial epoch, produce ahistorical images and objects. He investigates the influence postindustrial images and objects have on political ideologies that inhabit diplomatic space. By using appropriated likenesses, Hendrix re-contextualizes the impact of these vapid and destructive icons while subtly pointing his scope to a mental space that is occupied by his own personal history. By the simple act of addressing his own personal vocabulary, Hendrix has synthesized notions of private and public belief systems that lay dormant in a post-memory time and culture.