CULVER CITY, CA.- Mark Moore Gallery presents Construct, a two-person exhibition featuring new works by Kiel Johnson (CA) and Cordy Ryman (NY). The exhibition is on view from Jul 16th through August 27, 2011. Acting as a conversation between the artists’ work, Construct explores the materiality and process of contemporary art in an increasingly mechanized and digital age. Drawn to the romanticism of process, both artists share Neo-Constructivist underpinnings that rekindle notions of assemblage, “specific objects” and spatial engagement. Their choice in material and medium is pivotal to their practice, as they mine the everyday, discarded and peripheral for avenues to explore the substance, matter and presence of the human touch. Ryman fabricates sculptural paintings and installations that allude to a Judd-esque use of environment as art. He appropriates the space into his work with hidden strips of neon paint that to