Please join us for the closing reception for Gary Cruz's "I'll Take You There," curated by Marian Casey in the second installment of her curatorial project "HotHouse."

Cruz's immersive installation revolves around compelling portraits of queer space across 30 banners playfully ensconced in aluminum-clad walls with red lights and Cruz's sound installation "Bar Crawl" providing the backdrop.

"I’ll Take You There" ​pairs the spontaneity of bar photos taken on an iPhone with Cruz’s consuming and ruminative process of digitally pushing, pulling, stretching and pinching images via a range of techniques and technologies. Cruz’s career in architecture and interior design informs his eye for capturing the lives and emotions of bar interiors. His unique editing process collapses and experiments on space, expanding the images away from the interiors themselves, threading a fine line of pushing into purely formal instincts while maintaining the mood and spirit of the source material.