Crawl Space is proud to exhibit new transforming sculptures and
interactive air installation by guest artist Shawn Patrick Landis. By
furnishing the gallery as a home living space, and enshrouding it in
nylon fabric, the artist utilizes industrial fans and vacuums to allow
and refuse viewers access to the rooms. Viewers are able to lounge in
the living spaces during deflation and are gently forced to exit the
rooms as inflation begins. The viewer's perception is further
mani"pulated by transforming sculptures such as Landis' Collapsing
Chair.

In his most recent work, Shawn Patrick Landis deals with two
conditions of perspective: being fooled and being "un"-fooled. Our
natural tendency to conjure a perception of reality that reinforces
our paradigm informs the exhibit Illusion, Disillusion. Landis uses
the air installation in the back half of the gallery to expose the
softer building blocks of our belief states. Additional sculptures
alter perceptions of stability and reliability, deceiving the viewers
into thinking they are normal objects. To experience illusion fall
into disillusion is a potentially tragic evolution of belief.