Dimensions Variable presents You Can Not Been Replaced an exhibition by L.A. based artist and Locust Projects founder Elizabeth Withstandley. Please join us on September 11, 2015 from 6 – 10 pm for the reception.

You Can Not Been Replaced is a two channel video installation that documents all 82 current and former members of the Dallas choral symphonic rock band, The Polyphonic Spree.  The project began at the end of 2012 by shooting individual still portraits of all twenty-two of the current band members in Los Angeles when they were on tour. The past 24 months have been spent contacting and arranging and traveling to photograph the rest of the sixty former band members.

The band started 15 years ago as a twenty-two-member group with a unique sound and donning matching cult-like robes for their performances. The installation will display colored rectangles in a large grid.  Over time the rectangles will fill in with portraits of band members and their instruments. The series recognizes and questions the notion of one’s individual importance as it cycles through a song leaving one questioning whether they are replaceable. Over the years people have come in and out of the band, some have called it a right of passage in the Dallas music scene. In the images the band members are represented in the band’s signature stage-ware, a white robe, which adds to the cult-like appearance. The musicians/singers have each brought something unique to this band, who are they? Are they memorable? Unique? Individuals?

Biography

Elizabeth Withstandley is from Cape Cod, Massachusetts. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She is one of the co-founders of Locust Projects in Miami, FL.  Selected recent exhibitions include the From Far Away Across The Universe, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA, The Accident, Winslow Garage, Los Angeles, CA. She has also shown work at the Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, The Moore Space, Miami, Fredric Snitzer, Miami, The Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, The Tel Aviv Artists’ Studios, Israel, The Bass Museum, Miami, Cultural Center, Sao Paolo Brazil. Her work has been featured in Art Papers, The Miami Herald, and The New Times.