Exhibitions > 2010
Jonathan FrancoVideo Melee
Main Gallery and New Media Room
May 1 - May 28, 2010
Opening Reception/Melee May 1, 7-10 PM,
featuring a new performance piece by Kelly Ann Pinho,
”breakfast is just time for chewing Cocoa Puffs and/or wishing you were still asleep”
A totally uncurated free for all. Artists are invited to bring moving imagery, either pre-recorded or created live, as well as the means to display it.
Details here
See images here
Artists expressing intent include:
BELLO, Katrina
BIGELOW, Alan
BOREK, Joanne
BROWN-OSORNE, Tyrone
CACOILO, Doris
CHAN, Karen Y.
CHAVEZ, Daniel
DRESSLER, Steven
FRANCO, Jonathan
GRANETT, Sarah
LEMEH42
LEPORE, Ann
LUVAAS, Lucinda
MAJOR, Rebecca
NARULA, Veru
PILLIS, Daniel
ROSSI, Steve
SMITH, Katie
ST BENNET, James
TAYLOR, Andaiye
THACKRAY, Amanda
WENTWORTH, Sara
WIDRO, Tilton
YORK, Samuel D.
Lights, Camera, Action
Ryan Roa
Project Room
May 1 - May 28, 2010
Opening Reception May 1, 7-10 PM
One of the most striking artworks in Roa's exhibition is Re-Form, a large steel cross mounted with police light bars that rotate and strobe. The lights creates a line that rotates around the space.
People today are constantly on the
move, existing in a time influenced by technology; one of bigger, faster and
more. Western culture is best described by the gas station chain slogan, of
Mobil, “on the run”. Constantly
inundated with massive amounts of information, individuals have grown to
process information at amazingly high speeds. Through this constant state
of mass organized confusion, I wait for a break in time; a moment of peace, a
chance to clear my head and separate society’s agendas from my own.
I am interested in the circular
relationship that objects and images have to one another. Objects resemble and are processed
spatially, while images represent and are processed visually. My work consists of sculptures, installations,
images and videos. My concepts
stem from observations of the world around me. I am constantly scanning my surroundings, fixating on things
that seem to be in flux. My work
is energized by ideas of change and conflict, placing an emphasis on the perceptual
understanding of everyday things, and how they impact life.
belles letters
Kate Okeson
Liminal Space
May 1 - May 28, 2010
Opening Reception May 1, 7-10 PM
Kate Okeson’s recent project, belles letters, is a series of loosely bound writings from the artist/author to her self about the years before she gained agency. The work documents identity as a conversation between the visual self, its components, and plausible readings, and a self that is constructed by an oft un-chosen community. In these pieces, the artist contemplates the challenge, coexistence, and potential to dislodge between the state of ‘becoming’ and state of ‘being’.
belles letters
Kate Okeson
Liminal Space
May 1 - May 28, 2010
Opening Reception May 1, 7-10 PM
Kate Okeson’s recent project, belles letters, is a series of loosely bound writings from the artist/author to her self about the years before she gained agency. The work documents identity as a conversation between the visual self, its components, and plausible readings, and a self that is constructed by an oft un-chosen community. In these pieces, the artist contemplates the challenge, coexistence, and potential to dislodge between the state of ‘becoming’ and state of ‘being’.
Stephen MisholTek'tanik
curated by Evonne M. Davis
March 13 - April 24, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday March 13, 7-10 PM
Main Gallery
Artists:
Kate Bonner, Tammy Renee Brackett, Kyle Coniglio, Lisa di Donato, Lisa Elmaleh, Dahlia Elsayed, Jacob Galle, Kelly S. Goff, Michelle Levante, Patrick Millard, Stephen Mishol, Matthew Nicolosi, Joan Pamboukes, K. Shelton, Dmitry Strakovsky, Kai Vierstra, Sue Zwick
Tectonic refers to large-scale processes that take place within the earth. This multi-site exhibition was provoked by the changeability of the internal environment, and the attendant reality that convictions change with the climate, relationships change as convictions do, and nothing is still.
Does the shape of our internal lives reflect the shape of the structures that surround us?
Nothing to See/Hear: Ryan Schroeder
Project Room
March 13 - April 24, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday March 13, 7-10 PM
The urban environment as a
whole, and specifically the evidence that remains from its consumer
activity, is the basis of Ryan Schroeder's aesthetic research. His work exists simultaneously
in a state of creation and destruction, absorption and expansion. he was an Aferro Studio resident in 2008.
The Identity Project: Beatrice Coron
Liminal Space
March 13 - April 24, 2010
Opening Reception Saturday March 13, 7-10 PM
"Stories are written, and in my case, cut. I invent cities, worlds and situations. They are memories, associations of words, ideas, observations and thoughts that unfold in improbable juxtapositions. Each observer makes his or her own story in this accumulation of real or imaginary lives to remember the past and foresee the future. Whether automatic writing or premeditated scenes, images pass through words. The creative inspiration comes from a text, a poem, or from a concept that I reduce to a mere title, or an amalgam of deformed words. Part of the pleasure is finding words that are identical in French and in English: word play, translation add complexity and meaning. In my graphic style, windows are used not to see out but in. The cutting blade traces labyrinths and poetic meandering. Shadows suggest danger but also opportunities for new adventures." Beatrice Coron was an Aferro Studio Resident in 2008, and frequently gives workshops in the tri-state area.
