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NEWS
July 1, 2010
Helen Kauder is appointed as Executive Director.
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EXHIBITIONS
January 14- February 20, 2010
Anna Daegele: Untitled
Gallery 3
Anna collects forensic evidence of some smaller Creation story, like a miniature songline made visible.
January 14- February 20, 2010
John Judge: Story Lines
Gallery 5
My drawings/paintings have been influenced, in part, by political cartoons. I try to blend this cartoon-like style with a fine art sensibility. Color, composition, spatial relationships, and other formal devices are employed to support and enhance the content of the images. I use humor and playful color schemes, in part, to keep my paintings and drawings from seeming preachy or heavy-handed.
January 14- February 20, 2010
Kim Salerno: White Sea
Gallery 4
Nature is often the subject of decoration. William Morris' decorative
imagery is based on the repetitive patterning of plant materials.
January 14- March 20, 2010
Phil Lique: Traces of Things That are Alive and Dead
Gallery 1
Recognizable and decidedly uncomfortable, Lique's coded imagery of growling grizzly bears, snarling dogs, and roaming wolves speaks metaphorically to the trauma of our current economic climate and the continual degradation of our natural environment.
January 14- February 20, 2010
Susan Meyer: Together
Gallery 2
Composed of acrylic shapes that make reference to organic, stalactite-like landscapes, architectural models and Buckminster Fuller’s geodesic domes, the sculptural elements combine to create a fantastical environment.
January 14- February 20, 2010
Wes Heiss: Untitled
Gallery 7
His work is driven by an interest in exploring absurd notions that parallel fundamental existential questions. Often attempting to seduce a viewer with forms, materials, and technologies that evoke a joyful childlike curiosity, these works both build upon and challenge the give and take relationship we have with the mechanized world.
February 23- March 20, 2010
Cecile Chong: Unspoken Word
Gallery 5
Cecile juxtaposes appropriated images from vintage children’s books along with other found and original images to address the process of cultural assimilation and the development of individual identity. She is especially interested in this subject having been born in South America to Chinese parents and having learned about her ancestor’s culture as an outsider.
February 23- March 20, 2010
Elaine Kaufmann: International Design
Gallery 3
International Design adds biting social commentary to her body of work. In these drawings the artist starts with the layout and text from home design magazines, and replaces their original photographs with those of housing in developing worlds. “Children enjoy the amenties at Wellington Tower” reads the text beneath a suite of small shacks littered with garbage. As it turns out, just as easily as the poor and unsightly can be filtered out for ease of consumption, so can the children of Wellington Tower.
February 23- March 20, 2010
Fritz Horstman- Guerrilla Trees
Gallery 2
Utilizing the landscape as his medium, Fritz Horstman creates works that bring new awareness to our physical surroundings by intervening in nature in subtle ways. Horstman’s contemplative installations and interventions have taken the form of large geomentric cuts in the ground, undulating paper arches in a field, and a musically-inspired arrangement of charred tree trunks in a forest.
February 23- March 20, 2010
Peter Konsterlie- Medical Systems
Gallery 7
Medical Systems, a component of American Medical Series, is a statement to a loved one's medical treatment and illness. Though not sentimental, it is an illustration of emotions through anatomical paintings. The illustrations were a beautiful source, and a great opportunity to let the details and the subtleties speak.
March 23 – May 1 2010
David Barton: Artistic Syncretism: African Dream Paintings
Gallery 7
Artistic Syncretism--African Dream Paintings, by David Barton is a series of paintings based on personal descriptions by a friend (now deceased) who studied in Central Africa. His pictures are visual translations of the descriptions of pagan worship with incorporated elements of Islam and Christianity.
March 23- May 1, 2010
Hong Seon Jang: Rainbow Forest
Gallery 4
Using everyday materials such as recycled magazines, aluminum foil, plastic straws, post-it notes, and Scotch tape, sculptor Hong Seon Jang creates natural forms from the detritus and excesses of consumer culture.
March 23- May 1, 2010
Karla Knight: Life In Space: Charcoal Drawings
Gallery 7
In her ongoing series Life in Space: Charcoal Drawings, Karla Knight contrasts biomorphic forms with architectonic structures in order to seek a harmonious balance between two opposing elements. Elliptical, ovoid, and spherical forms are repeated throughout many of the drawings, yet each version is slightly different from its predecessor. Knight’s use of illusionism and composition are pictorial strategies that frequently enhance the anthropomorphic nature of her forms and figures, which at times, read as pairs of eyes or cartoon-like alien beings.
March 23- May 1, 2010
Lisa Dillin: Office Units: Surrogate Prototypes
Gallery 2
In Office Units: Surrogate Prototypes, Dillin’s spatial intervention takes the form of a modern-day office cubicle. Ordinary office products and personal effects appear: a desktop computer, file folders, pens, pencils, and snapshots sit atop the cubicle desktop.
May 23- May 1, 2010
Robin Press: Memory Project I
Gallery 5
Robin Press probes the complexities of time, memory, language, and the nature of human existence in The Memory Project I. The multimedia installation spans Galleries 5 and 6 at Artspace, and the intricacies of Press’s work unfold across an array of media. At the core, Memory Project Iis about communication. The impetus for the project was the artist’s own interest in communicating to other people about personal and collective experiences.
May 4- June 5 2010
Jennifer Crupi: Beyond Words: Expressive Gestures
Gallery 3
Investigating modes of communication through bodily expression, Jennifer Crupi creates a group of interactive, prosthetic-like proposals for instruments of gestural expression. Each sculpture imagines and presents a different outlet for stress, excitement, and the desire to communicate through body language and self-discovery. By viewing and interacting with the work, the artist seeks to illicit the underlying reasons for our seemingly casual gestures.
May 4- June 5, 2010
Miguel Trelles: Tramite: Hsiao
Gallery 3
In his painting series, Tramite: Hsiao, Miguel Trelles engages in notions of "otherness" through his creative interpretation of the 11th Century Chinese scholar paintings, Confucian text, and pictorial elements found in ancient Maya and Haitian cultures.
May 4- June 5, 2010
Sarah Bliss: Journey From Longjiang
Gallery 2
Journey from Longiang seeks to make visable the invisible. It takes as its starting place the economic history of the building where the work is shown – a former furniture retail store – and explores the hidden relationships and expenditures of energy and resource embedded in commercial activity.
September 16- October 30, 2010
Bernd Krauss: Hortus Conclusus
Gallery 3
Bernd Krauss is a multi-media artist interested in situational artistic creation in site-specific scenarios. His work often functions as a means to discover an unidentified end, and he makes use of simplistic human actions in public spheres to encourage interaction with the pedestrian world.
September 16- October 30, 2010
Ilona Anderson: Dwell
Gallery 5
Ilona’s work is mainly pearlescent ink on black and grey paper with black gauche. She explores mythologies and fairytales that are both dark, mysterious, and illuminating.
September 16- October 30, 2010
Meredith Nickie: Deploy Black
Gallery 4
Her artwork enlists the fanciful ornamentation of chinoiserie to reveal how this form of representation embodies and suppresses, in all its European cultural self-fashioning, the ‘black imaginary’ realized through colonial oppression and postcolonial recovery.
September 16- October 30, 2010
Taryn Wells: In Between Worlds
Gallery 7
Taryn's artwork is a dialogue that explores the complicated world of racial identity and the desire to find her place within it as a multiracial individual.
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