FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: January 30, 2006
Out of the Blue
an exhibition about weather + the creative process
http://outoftheblueproject.org
March
4 - May 6, 2006
CURATOR'S TOUR & ARTISTS’ RECEPTION:
Saturday, March 4th, 3pm free and open to the public.
Curator's
Talk begins at 3pm and is followed by the reception until 6pm.
Abington Art Center
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Works by:
Stephen Andrews, Robert Bordo,
Emily Brown, Diane Burko, Dawn DeDeaux, Christos Dikeakos,
John Dougill, Joy Episalla, Joy Garnett, Felix Gonzalez-Torres,
Erik Hanson, Geoffrey Hendricks,
J.J. L’Heureux, Bill Jones, Zoe Leonard, Frank Moore, Eileen
Neff, Andrea Polli, Hunter Reynolds,
Austin Thomas, Bing Wright, Carrie Yamaoka
With a selection of ephemera and multiples by:
Colin Keefe, Richard Long, Ben
Neill, Kiki Smith,
Patti Smith, Robert Smithson, Andrea
Zittel
and others…
JENKINTOWN , PA
Center curator Amy Lipton, Out of the Blue is
one of the most significant shows to premier at
hailing
from
The
exhibition focuses on the dynamics of human creativity as a metaphor for
geological and atmospheric
phenomena. Treating issues of weather both literally
and symbolically, Out of the Blue approaches the
creative process as a kind of weather system.
Ideas,
like hurricanes, seem to come "out of the blue," though they arrive
through a combination of complex
forces. Through metaphors provided by art, Out of
the Blue leads us through the tangle of influences—both
innovative and destructive—that humans exert upon one
another and the environment. Understanding and
cultivating these influences and relationships is the
key to our cultural vitality in a world where technological
hubris and political arrogance overshadow
tolerance and collaboration.
On
display, in addition to artworks, is a selection of "ephemera" loaned
by the curators and participating artists.
Found
objects, artist multiples, books, CDs and vernacular artifacts interspersed throughout the
exhibition and
displayed
in nearby vitrines, reflect the artists' sources and provide a map of their
thought processes.
Through
this grouping of artists, artworks and objects, which are all connected to one
another in some way,
Out of the Blue generates its own weather conditions, a
storm of intertwined processes—artistic, social,
political, atmospheric, and geological. As we
influence one another, we in turn affect our culture and the
environment, and creativity itself becomes a force of
nature.
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ABOUT THE CURATORS
Joy Episalla is a
Her
work focuses on the wealth of information that mundane architecture or an
object can provide, like a
forensic examiner or palm reader, studying the
cracks and stains inscribed on the surface—the secret
histories of places and things. A long time AIDS
activist, she is on the board of Treatment Action Group
and the Gesso Foundation. Her work has been
exhibited in the
Center
for the Arts; Debs & Co., NY; The
this exhibition. She is a 2003 recipient of a
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award.
Joy Garnett is a
with media, politics and culture. Her paintings
have been exhibited at Debs & Co., Lombard-Freid
Fine Arts, Foxy
Production,
Clementine Gallery, White Columns, Exit Art, and
traveling exhibition Night Vision, about
networks, surveillance and media images of war that opened at
University
Galleries and traveled to White Columns, NY (2002) and
In
2004 she received a grant from the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation. She is the
Arts Editor at Cultural Politics,
an internationally refereed journal published by Berg,
Amy Lipton has been active as a curator since she opened her first
gallery in
was the owner and director of Amy Lipton
Gallery until 1995. In 1999 Lipton became Curator for ecoartspace,
a
arts. In June 2002, her curatorial project Ecovention, with an accompanying 160-page catalogue
opened at the
Nurture
Lipton
has been Curator at
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Stephen Andrews lives in
recently had solo exhibitions at Paul Petro Gallery (
City at the Cue Art Foundation and at Participant, Inc.
in 2004.
Robert Bordo was born in
Alexander in 1987. His most recent solo show, “Robert Bordo: Another Day,” was held in September-October 2005 at
Alexander and Bonin, NYC.
Emily Brown is one of the
Brown: The Evolving Landscape,” at the
Diane Burko was born in
including a Lila Acheson Wallace fellowship and a
grant from the Leeway Foundation. Her most recent project is
the most active volcanic territory on earth.
Dawn DeDeaux is a multimedia,
digital and conceptual artist based in
Avenue
Contemporary in
Hurricane
Katrina and currently resides in a tree house in coastal
Christos Dikeakos is an artist based
in
role in the rise of conceptual and
post-conceptual art in
time and the significance of urban spaces as
sites to activate memory. His recent solo show, “Domicile/drift,” was held in
Nov
25, 2005 - Jan 16, 2006 at Catriona Jeffries Gallery,
John Dougill has been an
inspirational teacher at the Royal College of Art,
onwards. His habitual and (literally) self-effacing
practice of reworking and updating each painting has led to too few sightings
of his art.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres (1957-1996) was a Cuban artist who grew up
in Puerto Rico before moving to
his first solo show at Andrea Rosen Gallery in
1990, where he continued to show his work until his death from AIDS. His estate
is represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery.
Erik Hanson is a New York-based conceptual artist. His work
apprehends non-visual sensual phenomena and translates/transforms
them using visual means. He is represented by
Geoffrey Hendricks lives and works in
been active with Fluxus
since the mid-sixties. He uses sky imagery to describe changes, shifts and the
passage of time, a form
of reflection, a vocabulary he builds and attaches to
objects. His recent solo show, “Continuing Sky Dialogs," was held at
Pavel Zoubok Gallery,
NYC January 5 – February 4, 2006.
JJ L'Heureux attended the San
Francisco Art Institute and is based in
America,
the Galapagos Islands, North America, Tierra del Fuego,
across the Southern Ocean and into the Antarctic wilderness.
Her
photographs of
passenger on Russian icebreakers.
Bill Jones is a photographer and installation artist. His work is
concerned with the subject of light as physical phenomena and
metaphorical figure. For the past ten years he has
collaborated with the musician/composer Ben Neill. His newest work will be
featured in the month-long program “Playvision” to take place at the World Financial Center,
New York City, in May 2006.
Zoe Leonard is New York-based
artist who works with black & white photography, sculpture, installation
and film. Since her
inclusion in Documenta IX
in 1992 she has had a major international solo career. She is a 2005 recipient
of a grant from the
Anonymous
Was a Woman Foundation.
Frank Moore (1953-2002) was born in
AIDS,
he became a noted AIDS activist, working with Visual AIDS on the launch of the
Red Ribbon Project. He was included in
the 1995 Whitney Biennial and he had a mid-career
retrospective in 2002 at the Orlando Museum of Art and the Albright Knox
Art
Gallery in
the Whitney, and the
Eileen Neff is a photographer, installation artist and writer based
in
the image and its object. She is the recipient
of numerous awards, including a Pew Fellowship in the Arts and a Leeway
Foundation
grant. She is represented by Locks Gallery,
Andrea Polli is a digital media
artist living in
contemporary society, her projects often bringing
together artists and scientists from various disciplines. Polli
is currently
working in collaboration with meteorological
scientists to develop systems for understanding storms and climate through
sound.
For
this work, she has been recognized by the UNESCO Digital Arts Award 2003.
Hunter Reynolds is an AIDS activist, visual and performance
artist who was one of the founding members of ACT-UP and
ART-Positive. He has performed extensively nationally and
internationally in the Patina du Prey Memorial Dress.
He is represented
by Mary Goldman Gallery,
in 2004. He currently resides in
Austin Thomas is a New York-based artist who builds structures known
as “perches,” which are both functional and aesthetic
objects. She is a recipient of a Smack Mellon
Artist Studio Program, an LMCC studio residency, and Public Arts Fund
Commission.
Her
work was recently featured at The Drawing Center, NY and at the
Bing
Wright was born in
Queens
Museum of Art, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, Lipton Owens
Company, Pace Wildenstein McGill,
NY. He is
represented by Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City.
Carrie Yamaoka lives and works in
including "Vanishing Point" at the
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Gallery
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t. (215) 887 4882 / http://abingtonartcenter.org
More
information is available at the project website http://outoftheblueproject.org
High
quality images are available upon request: joy.garnett @ gmail.com
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