While other media artists employ architectural space as an object of exploration, none approach it in quite the same manner as Van McElwee, who tonight presents a cross-section of his works. Through entrancing editing strategies, McElwee engineers enormous disorder and discontinuity: linearity fails, volume implodes, design elements no longer refer to structure. Through this entropic system, the viewer re-experiences the idea of buildings. McElwee creates the illusion, in such works as Folded Follies (based on Bernard Tschumi's Parc La Villette) and Space Splice, that spatiality is akin to deception as hallways and atriums unfold in an orgy of expansion. But his purpose isn't simply to debunk the integrity of the building. Ironically, McElwee's transformations focus our appreciation on the minutiae and the immaterial impact of much architecture. Fragments of India creates a composite image of sacred architecture that thrives on western energy yet retains an ethereal aura. The profusion of detail to be found in these Hindu temples reveals not a dampened but a heightened religiosity.-Steve Seid