Informed Design
LongView Gallery DC
LongView Gallery DC
"Informed Design" strived to expound on the role of art objects within the context of interior design and architecture. This exhibition featured two architectural design vignettes by leading D.C. architects Ernesto Santalla and David Jameson.
In contrast to typical gallery shows in which pieces hang on blank white walls, "Informed Design" demonstrates how art can influence or interact with an interior. "Informed Design" aims to explore the relationship between art and architecture, and argues that exceptional works of art establish dialogues with their surroundings.
Local architects Ernesto M. Santalla of Studio Santalla and David Jameson of David Jameson
Architect Inc. will install site-specific vignettes to accompany our artwork selections. Santalla
and Jameson both consider art as the hub of their respective design processes.
Educated in the Bauhaus style of architecture, Santalla’s vignette adopts the unique curatorial
approach of selecting artworks according to which pieces best utilize the space. His vignette
incorporates a site-specific installation by Barbara Josephs Liotta, as well as a series of paintings
by Ralph Turturro that echo the texture of gallery’s stone pillars. Specifically created for
“Informed Design,” Liotta will unveil a 20-foot tall installation composed of white marble stones
and matching tie cord that float against a black wall. She describes her work as “stripping away
the superfluous and the decorative. I strive for a sort of essence, a clarity that will allow the work
grace but not prettiness, rhythm but not contrivance, balance but not inertness. I strive to
animate, not merely inhabit a space.” The work should resonate both with the architecture of the
space it occupies, and with the materials from which it is constructed.”
