pre-rock
rock (Oxford Languages)noun: the solid mineral material forming part of the surface of the earth and other similar planets, exposed on the surface or underlying the soil.verb: move gently to and fro or from side to side.
post·rock is an art and landscape architecture studio born out of a passion for geological and mineral matter. In interpreting rocks as a sedimentation of time, we interrogate the history of the natural formation to reveal and inspire new futures, gently.
post·rock was a birthday present from Jialei Tang to Sonny Meng Qi Xu in 2022.
Richard Serra, Verb List, 1967, graphite on paper, 2 sheets, each 10 x 8 ½ inches (25.4 x 21.6 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of the artist in honor of Wynn Kramarsky, 2011. © 2013 Richard Serra / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / Photo: John Wronn
and to paint, to render, to move, to erect, to sculpt, to stack, to catalogue, to curate, to
re-imagine, to re-search, to re-construct,
to pile, to carve, to engrave, to quarry, to align, to trace, to bury, to set, to pave, to build...
/sonny
Sonny Meng Qi Xu (b.1990, Beijing, China) is a Chinese Canadian landscape architect (NY: #003211) and architectural designer based in Cambridge, MA and New York, NY. He is currently a landscape architect at STIMSON. With over a decade of work experience, he has practiced as a senior landscape designer at Stoss Landscape Urbanism and as an architectural designer with Mohsen Mostafavi Architecture, FxCollaborative and Epiphyte-Lab, among other firms.
Sonny plays Magic the Gathering.
/lei
“i like rocks.”
ART/ Paintings: Aerials
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waterolor sketch on paper, 6” x 4”, plein air
《水银湖》Lake Mercury
acrylics on canvas, 36”x 24”, view taken from plane, summer 2023.
《Tree Roots》
acrylics on masonite, 36”x36”, Toronto, ON, 2016
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Fish Heads
》acrylics on canvas, 10”x10”, Toronto, ON 2016
《Pond Finds》watercolor on paper, 6”x4”, of crab claw and clam shells found at Walden Pond, Boston, MA 2023
ART/ Paintings: Horses
《 马儿 》
一步一回眸
acrylics on canvas, 24”x18” of horses spotted in New Mexico, summer 2023
《野马》
“he trots the air; the earth sings”
36” x 24”, acrylics on canvas
New Mexico, 2023