Exhibitions > 2008
Tori Purcell, Race RubricTheory and Practice
April 19-May 17, 2008
Opening Reception April 19, 7-10 PM
Curated by Evonne M. Davis
with illustrated full color catalog
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“…There are no countries now….” From artist Alan Bigelow’s When I was President
Theory+ Practice is an acknowledgement, interrogation and fete of the void between what the world could be and what it is. Web artist and writer Alan Bigelow’s piece, When I was President is an interactive projection that details a presidency ended by a suicide bomber: “a high school teacher from Des Moines.”
“She said it was the only way to make the world right again.”
Site-specific sculptural works by Brian Wondergem include a 15-foot high Ferris wheel built exclusively out of ladders, suggestive of both an extreme pragmatism as well as yearning for escape.
Artists: Andrew Leo Baron, Alan Bigelow, Deric Carner, Robert Ladislas Derr, Nisha Drinkard, Katarina Jerinic, Darren Jones, Tracie Lee, Paula McCartney, Tori Purcell, Stephanie Standish, Alina Tenser, Matthew Verdon, Brian Wondergem
If So, Then So!
Kevin Darmanie
Project Room
April 19-May 17, 2008
A solo exhibition of 07 Aferro Studio resident Kevin Darmanie's series of oversize comic pages that each functions independently but can also be read as part of an ongoing narrative. The series features an alter ego, "Kedar" between Trinidad and a minutely observed city not dissimilar to Newark, caught between neglect and gentrification. The highly politicized narrative within a narrative of contemporary urban life follows an artist who closely resembles Darmanie, working on a block that closely resembles Market Street between Washington and University.
Carts and Waggons, Gunter PullerNetworked
New Media Room
April 17- May 17, 2008
Curated by Donna Kessinger
The world of networked art is expansive and constantly evolving daily with new technology and applications.
Networked is an effort to take into consideration both literal and physical interpretations based on an open call for networked art on a local and international level. This small group survey is an attempt to look at the manifestation of net-based interactive projects, and physical attempts to escape from virtual realities, resulting in work with a more personal connection - going back to an idea of networks having to do with people and the way we live and work, both alone and in community.
Submit or accept a dare with The Coalition for Daring Behavior, or hear Disembodied Voices by Jody Zellen
Artists: William Brovelli, Doris Caçoilo, Beatrice Coron, The Coalition for Daring Behavior, Sean Hovendick, Visakh Menon, William Oliwa, Gunter Puller, Katherine Sweetman, Amanda Thackray, Michelle Wilson, Jody Zellen
Donna Rae Kessinger is a video artist and independent curator. She was the Installation Coordinator of the Greater New York Show, 1999, at PS1 Contemporary Art Center. She produced the Collaborative Arts Projects (CAP), Bronx Museum of the Arts, emerging artist residency program with Eathon G. Hall Jr., Director of Education; as well as developing curatorial, education and public programs for Aljira, a Space for Contemporary Art, including the acclaimed Young Curators program. She was on the BRIO panel for video in 2007. Most she recently co-developed and produced the PS1 Wack! Soho walking tour and interactive media map with Mary Beth Edelson and GAIA Studios. She is currently curating a video event, and community based Art show called: Walking Bedford Avenue with eyewash Gallery Director Larry Walczack, Spring 2008. Her media work les biens inc, has been cloned into Rhizome's Artbase, and has been screened at the Jersey City Museum of Art.
Sponsors of the exhibition and catalog
Yellow Stair, Meridith PingreeShift
December 1-Febuary 2, 2008
Opening Reception December 1, 7-10 PM
Curated by Erik Guzman of Goliath Visual Space
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Large scale kinetic works by Erik Guzman, Federico Muelas and Meridith Pingree take over the gallery and can be operated by the public.
Erik Guzman has been a LMCC Swing Space artist and Cue Foundation resident. He has exhibited locally in New York City, Smack Mellon, El Museo Del Barrio (S Files), Front Room Gallery, Soap Factory, Hillwood Museum, Dumbo Art Festival, The Kitchen, Exit Art, St. Marks Church Gallery. International exposure includes shows at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Goliath in Hamburg, Germany and Gallery Tezz, Tokyo, Japan. Erik is the Co-Director of Goliath Visual Space in Brooklyn. Each of his large scale sculptures generally takes a year to create and it can be asked whether they are machines that want to be sculptures or sculptures that want to be machines.
Federico Muelas is a new media artist living and working in New York. He was born in Madrid, Spain where he obtained his undergraduate degree in fine arts. In 1998 he founded d2ec creative group developing artistic and commercial projects for companies and individuals. Following that he specialized in computer aided installation. Having a formation both in academic fine arts and in new media technology his work ranges from audiovisual pieces to highly complex installations incorporating sensors and microcontrollers. His awarded work has been exhibited throughout Europe, Asia, United States and South America.
Meridith Pingree's work has been seen recently at Museo Antropologico y de Arte Contemporaneo, Guayaquil, Ecuador, Aljira, Newark, NJ, BravinLee Programs,New York, NY and Triple Candie, New York, NY. She is a Bronx Museum AIM and Smack Mellon Studio alumnus. Her artwork physically tracks human behavior and traffic patterns using quasi-scientific, homespun, reactive sculptures, using sensors to pick up on people's energy and movement throughout a space. It exists as amplifications of this subtle energy, creating unconventional, complex portraits of people and spaces.
