Low Rise is a group of paintings which explores modernist architecture and the culture of cars. Specifically, the paintings are a collection of sites depicting low-rise apartment buildings–icons of early urban living–and the degree to which the landscape is dedicated to car culture. The paintings employ the familiar language of traditional landscape painting which makes heroic its subject, but here the subject is deflated both physically and ideologically, prompting a second look at Modernism’s fervent belief in technology and design as vehicles for social development. We see the trademarks of Modernism–clean rectangular form, ribbon windows, and flush surfaces–but we also see a landscape dwarfed by SUVs and fringed by generic, awkward gardens which describe no place. Finally, within our current preoccupation with homes, homelessness, affordability, densification, and environment, these sites mark an idea whose time has ended. Low Rise Monique Genton April 1-21 Jeffrey Boone Gallery 8 East Cordova St Vancouver, BC www.JeffreyBooneGallery.com