Two current exhibitions in New York City reference artists’ response to location in polar ways.
Oleg Yushko, from the series “Implications,” 2002-07
At The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space through March 10, 2012, visitors can view art made by Belorusian artists as curated by Olga Kopenkina in Sound of Silence: Art During Dictatorship. “Sound of Silence presents videos, posters, installations and paintings by nine of the most active artists and collectives from Belarus. These artists create work in solidarity with recent popular protest in Belarus, using their practice to challenge the status quo and contribute to the democratic movement, which expands far beyond their native land.” The result is powerful and educational.
Uptown at the Howard Greenberg Gallery through March 17, 2012, New York in Color is on view. This show is sweeping view of the beauty, vibrancy and glamor of New York City from the 1950s until present day. Photographers on view include Bruce Davidson, Margaret Morton, Ernst Haas, Saul Leiter, Helen Levitt, Joel Meyerowitz, Marvin Newman, and numerous others.
As a follow-up to Kara Smith’s Now.Here.This. exhibition, we wanted to share some interesting projects in and around Brooklyn that relate to our theme of artists responding to location.
Candy Chang, an artist who participated in |||’s Windows Brooklyn project in 2008, has a new project in Downtown Brooklyn, called “Before I Die.” Read more about her project here.
from Candy Chang’s Website, Photo by Caroline Oh
The Invisible Dog, an interdisciplinary art center in Cobble Hill, is featuring The Dumpster Project by Mac Premo. On their website, they explain it as “a physical taxonomy of one man’s existence…Mac has converted a 30-foot long industrial dumpster into an exhibition space where each object is discretely displayed. A visitor to the installation will walk into a modern-day “cabinet of curiosities.”
Lenscratch, a contemporary photography blogzine, posted about photographer William Miller, who finds beauty in the Gowanus Canal, an EPA registered Superfund site.
At Cabinet Magazine’s Brooklyn event space, they have been hosting a “24-hour Book” Series, where they invite distinguished authors to complete a project from start to finish within 24 hours. Read about Brian Dillon’s I Am Sitting in a Room here.
If you know of any interesting projects that we should feature on our blog, let us know! Feel free to send any links to info@3-art.org.
We are very excited to announce our February exhibition, featuring the work of Laurence Payot! The exhibition will evolve and change daily, so please remember to check back often.
Laurence Payot short circuits daily routine to make us question the way we look, respond and behave in everyday situations. Like a chameleon, her work takes on various forms within the public realm, blurring the lines between the ‘real’ and the ‘staged’.
In her project ‘Coincidence’, 600 local people of a small area of Liverpool created a subtle performance to transform the behaviour of the place they live in; In ‘I thought it was real’, a performing human statue turned into a real statue and gathered perplexed crowds… Whatever physical form the work may take, what Payot really is working with is the way her audience responds to the work and thus to their environment in a real life situation.
For Now.Here.This., Laurence is opening up her studio practice on-line to share the way she initiates ideas. Throughout February 2012, she will be presenting a series of photographic sketches, experimenting with images of crowds as a way to spark new ideas. Mock-ups will be created from still images of Liverpool City Centre, accentuating and playing with noticed human behaviour.
We are excited to announce that the format of the Now. Here. This. exhibitions is changing for 2012. Starting in January, each installment will feature one artist or group in order to delve deeper into the power of the artist’s process. Each exhibition will change over time and provide an in-depth look into the visceral responses, performative gestures and inspired moments of artists affected by their surroundings.
Our January exhibition will feature Kara Smith, an artist living and working in Brooklyn, NY. Kara’s work as a painter is deeply influenced by her routes via subway or on foot which are dictated by employment, appointments, social calls and the regular daily activities of an artist in New York City. The familiarity of imagery in her drawings and paintings echo a universal glance toward the past, but never create a nostalgic longing. Her fictional moments seem to hang in mid-air and transform her realistic urban landscape into tender moments of uncertainty. Kara physically charts her personal geographic routes on homemade maps, with each point representing a stop she has made, her studio, or her home. Just as the Situationists left their entire “dérive” experiences up to chance, Kara allows the paths between points on her map to be viable authentic experiences and chance moments that trigger a creative act. Kara’s work for Now. Here.This. is a chart of her mental landscape as influenced by her surroundings.
We are really excited to announce our newest project: Made to Move! It’s a traveling exhibition of small art works by over 20 American artists, and will tour the United States and be installed in a variety of unexpected or non-traditional spaces throughout 2012. The exhibition is designed to take art out of its institutional settings and reach a variety of under-served communities interested in learning more about contemporary art. In addition to experiencing artworks close up, viewers will be able to learn about the artists, their lives, and the inspiration behind their work.
Each artist contributed to the exhibition an artwork measuring five inches or smaller. Made to Move is a representative cross-section of the art world today, and combines portability with diverse media, topical issues, and wide-ranging approaches to art making. All of the Made to Move installations will be documented here, and will also include visits to artists’ studios, links to their work, and interviews about their processes. The curators’ goal is to bring art — and the ideas behind it — to communities that might not otherwise have access to it.
Participating artists include:
Megan Abajian, Todd Antonellis, Karen Aqua, Maria Carlassare, Francois DeCosterd, Molly Dilworth, Abigail Doan, Jennifer Fuchel, Leah Gauthier, Abbigail Knowlton Israelson, Faith Johnson, Sara Jones, Nate Kassel, Darren Miller, Sara Pearce, Elke Pessl, Karen Rosenkrantz, Liz Shepherd, Mara Sprafkin, Betsy Stirratt, Laura Torres, Ben Valentine, Andrea Wenglowskyj, Pietre Valbuena, and Karla Wozniak
A wonderful group of artists to close out 2011! Darren Miller, Helena Wurzel and Nathaniel Kassel are our December artists!
Darren Miller explores his hometown in rural upstate New York and his current home in rural western Pennsylvania, and enacts performances for the camera that explore questions of traditional roles, identity, and power structures.
In her paintings, Helena Wurzel investigates the feelings intertwined with being in an intimate relationship. These paintings embody the vulnerability of being exposed, the duality of closeness and disconnect, disappointment and hope, and the memory of love felt and love lost.
Nathaniel Kassel buys peppers and toothpaste and butter and whiskey in Brooklyn, NY, and along the way encounters hundreds of people. People doing something. He is a witness and a spy. He is never bored.
Fletcher Boote’s video project Fractions of Times is getting updated daily in the November exhibition of Now. Here. This.
“Over the course of 30 days I’ve filmed the skyline from the exact same location, a hill in the Lamoille Valley near my house in Johnson, Vermont. The wavering skyline acts as a visual score, informing a composition in sound, audible at the end of each video. Every day, a new video is posted and the prior day’s work is archived. I hope you’ll take a few moments to view the exhibition.”
Please visit the exhibition to watch this piece change over time. The archive of all 30 videos will be accessible after the month is past, as well.
We have a great lineup of November artists for Now. Here. This.!
Oksana Parafeniuk investigates and documents her family’s dacha in Korostyshiv, Ukraine. She says, “It is in Korostyshiv where I first understood the importance of family. Every morning or evening we gathered around the old table or on the terrace and I carefully listened to stories. Every winter I remember the tale when my mother was young– one year snow fell above human height and her brother dug long tunnels right up to the school. While discovering family heirlooms, stones, old things, and photos I reflect on the connection between past, present and eternal.”
Karen Rosenkrantz created a series of paintings and sculptures that describe our desire and need for personal space as we move through the world.
Fletcher Boote explores the geography of external and internal landscapes. “Through simple actions, repeated over time, I measure how these landscapes are seen and the ways in which they fluctuate. Fractions of Times loops footage, filmed in the same location over 30 days, as the basis for a cumulative composition in video and sound.”
**Fletcher’s video/sound piece will change every single day during the month of November. Please check back frequently to see how her perception of the landscape changes.**
The October Exhibition is up, featuring the video work of Georgie Friedman, collages about life in Beijing, China by Anya Antonovych-Metcalf, and a site-specific sculptural installation by Sara Hubbs. Please take a look!
Sarah Williams, Centralia Carwash, 2010
We have been really busy this summer curating and organizing new exhibitions and projects for the fall. We are very excited about the artists we have for the next installment of Now. Here. This.
For September 2011, we have Sarah Williams documenting small towns in Missouri, Betsy Stirratt responding to the colors of Bloomington, Indiana, and a collaboration of three artists in Lehedzyne, Ukraine: Naomi Uman, Agitsa Bo-Gi, and Bozena Hrycyna. Click here to view the September Exhibition.