Jane Benson Jane Benson is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work is about material and identity transformation and the atavistic tension between natural and artificial forms of beauty. Benson appropriates design of culturally significant objects in order to question their original conditions and purpose. Image: courtesy of the artist Julie Anne Mann Julie Anne …
Featuring Paolo Bertocchi, Ernest Concepcion, Rachel Frank, Haegeen Kim, Fay Ku, Stephanie Lempert, Dulce Pinzón, and Adam Smith Curated by Tricia YunJoo Paik Exhibition Dates: August 4 through September 8, 2007 Closing reception: Saturday, September 8, 4-6pm (part of Howl! Festival 2007 www.howlfestival.com) “All creative people are empowered by an inheritance from the past, a …
Paolo Bertocchi Paolo Bertocchi is an installation and performance artist whose work relates directly with the performer’s body, sometimes encompassing it or being manipulated by it. Mr. Bertocchi’s installations draw the audience in to question both the endurance of the performer/artist and outside cultural institutions. The performer’s gestures are slow, calculated and precise. In this …
Featuring Larry Bamburg and Mai Braun Curated by Simone Subal Exhibition dates: May 5 through June 9, 2007 Opening reception: Saturday, May 5, 4 to 6pm Exercises in Resourcefulness brings together two artists, Larry Bamburg and Mai Braun, who push the limits of what can be done with some paper, a simple electrical fan, cardboard boxes, …
Featuring Yoko Inoue A multi-media exhibition in collaboration with Bennington College students Aaron Fisher, Kelli Karsten, Kirian Langseth-Schmidt, Griff Maloney, Trent Morris and Nate Philbrick Curated by Andréa Salerno Exhibition dates: March 17 through April 21, 2007 Opening reception: Saturday, March 17, 4 to 6pm Encarta Dictionary defines Pos-it as: to put something forward for …
Featuring Marcy B. Freedman and Marcy Sue Freedman with resident artists Peter Coffin and Xylor Jane Curated by Anthony Marcellini Exhibition dates: February 10 through March 7, 2007 Opening reception: Saturday, February 10, 2007, 4 to 6pm Having the same name as another artist is never easy. In a field in which establishing an idiosyncratic …
Ernest Concepcion Ernest Concepcion’s ongoing series “The Line Wars”. convey his commitment to perpetually create anything imaginable engaged in conflict. The images are based on the entertainments of childhood and adolescence: video games, action figures, strategy board games- always two forces opposing one another. Each panel encapsulates a single battle. When viewed together, they take …
Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua are artists whose work crosses disciplines, and actively engages the community. Often blurring the lines between work, play, manhood and boyhood, their process is elastic, crossing genres, mixing materials, and collaborating with others. During the residency, Mr. Bercowetz and Mr. Bua will work on a …
Jeffrey Gibson “My paintings use acrylic inks, oil paint, and pigmented silicone to describe a conceptual space that I call The Infinite Anomaly. The most recent paintings suggest an untamed landscape and the animated forms that inhabit this environment. The gestural and dimensional marks seem to crawl, sit, and slither across the surface. They merge …
Kent Henricksen “My art combines embroidery and textiles with folk tales and current events. The narratives that are made through these traditional mediums create scenes that are both factual and absurd, cross- referencing art history, literature and everyday life.” Image courtesy of the artist Sun K. Kwak “I use my visual imagination to create an …
