I am very pleased to be participating in the exhibitionThe Weekend Inventor which opens today, September 17th from 6-8 pm at Artspace in New Haven. This exhibit is the first by curator Liza Statton.
The lineup of artists includes : Nathan Carter, Jane South, Molly Larkey, Jeff Shore & Jon Fisher, Peter Sarkisian, Martha Lewis and Billy Malone.
The Weekend Inventor
September 17– October 31, 2009
Public Opening: Thursday, September 17th, 6-8PM
"The Weekend Inventor is a group exhibition that explores the continuously evolving relationship between art, technology, and innovation. Inspired by the mathematical equations, diagrams, maps, and models used by engineers and inventors that attempt to give visual form to complex thought and problem-solving endeavors, the artists in this exhibition employ similar analytical and pictorial strategies, creating works of art that question or subvert notions of stability and utility long associated with technology. In their works, fragmented machine parts, devices, and plans are put to new, at times inventive and absurd, use. Although these artists work in a variety of media ranging from painting and drawing to high-definition video and sculpture, their works have much in common. They share a formal concern for space and material, an interest in the experimental and nonsensical, and an entrepreneurial ethos that underscores the “do it yourself” attitude that has recently re-emerged in the 21st century.
Like the hobbyist-inventor whose ceaseless tinkering is driven by an intense curiosity and a need to create, the artists in this exhibition are fueled by their own imaginations as they push the conceptual boundaries of utility through physical materials, expose the fragility of belief systems, and explore society’s resistance to the notion of failure. Artspace will produce an exhibition catalog that contextualizes the work by these emerging artists, contributing new scholarship to the broader art historical debate around art and technology.
Committed to fostering the careers of New Haven artists, Artspace will commission Martha Lewis to create a site-specific installation in the gallery that participates in these debates."
Additional Programming: FILM NIGHT at Artspace
Thursday, October 15, 7-8 PM Introduction by Martha Lewis
Screening of Swiss artists’ Peter Fischli and David Weiss’ film, “The Way Things Go” (1987).
In their masterful film, everyday objects crash, scrape, slide, or fly into one another with devastating, impossible, and persuasive effect, viewers find themselves witnessing a spectacle that seems at once prehistoric and postapocalyptic, and above all, absurd and completely entertaining.
Artspace
50 Orange Street
New Haven CT 06510
203.772.2709 info[at]artspacenh.org
http://artspacenh.org
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