Randy Colosky Babel series, unique cast glass

Oakland-based conceptual artist Randy Colosky investigates the industrial landscape of his youth with influence from the formal concepts of deconstruction in the biblical story of the Tower of Babel in his current solo show, “Infrastructure” at K. Imperial Fine Art. The Tower of Babel story tells of a group of people in ancient times who aimed to build a city with a tower that would stretch from the Earth to the limits of the sky. When God discovered the plan, he dispersed all the people in conference with this rebellious and vanitied scheme by expelling them to assorted nations and languages, and the city was destroyed. Colosky takes on the major themes of the story: construction and deconstruction, inherent shared qualities of the dissimilar, and architecture’s power to create a link between humanism and spirituality. Says Colosky: “…These pieces could be structures under construction or in the process of coming apart. The glass pieces in particular reference the story  of the Tower Of Babel, in which, God’s children (united from many different  tribes and speaking the same language) have perfected their capacity to do great things, God then decides that his children should have obstacles to  overcome and confounds their language so they can not finish the building of  the tower.” ……. read the the rest of the article on the SF Art Beat site.