Janine Antoni
Janine Antoni December 8th 6:30pm RISD Auditorium
Announcing the Fall 2009 Visiting Artist Series
Alison Rossiter
Wednesday, October 14th Design Center, room 212 1:15 pm
Alison Rossiter has worked with the materials and processes of light sensitive, gelatin silver based photography since 1970. The darkroom is essential to her work process, whether it involves traditional methods or simple experimentation. In 2003 an immersion into the field of photograph conservation as a volunteer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art led to a profound appreciation of the history of photographic materials. She lives south of New York City.
Paul Ramirez Jonas
Wednesday, November 11th Design Center, room 212, 1:15 pm
Paul Ramírez Jonas’ selected solo exhibitions include The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut, The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas; a survey at Ikon Gallery (UK) and Cornerhouse (UK); Alexander Gray Gallery (NYC); Roger Björkholmen (Sweden); and Postmasters Gallery (NYC). He has been included in group exhibitions at the Gallery for Contemporary Art Leipzig (Germany); P.S.1 (NYC); The Whitechapel (UK); Irish Museum of Modern Art (Ireland); Künstlerhaus (Austria); The New Museum (NYC); and Kunsthaus Zurich (Switzerland). He has participated in the Johannesburg Biennale; the Seoul Biennial, the Shanghai Biennial; the 28th Sao Paulo Biennial; and the 53rd Venice Biennial.
Eve Laramee
Tuesday, November 17th, Center for Integrated Technologies (CIT), room 103, 6:30 pm
Eve Andrée Laramée has been exploring the mutable, triadic relationship between art, science and nature for over twenty years. Her work has been exhibited throughout the United States and in Europe, including exhibitions in New York, England, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, France, Israel, Poland, China and the Czech Republic. She has also exhibited work at the Venice Biennale, MassMOCA, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston among other institutions.
Rachel Berwick
Friday, November 13th, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, 5:30 pm
Rachel Berwick received her B.F.A from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1984, and her M.F.A from Yale University School of Art, Connecticut in 1991. After teaching at Yale University Berwick returned to teach at the Rhode Island school of design and is currently Head of the Glass Department. Berwick uses elements of natural history, anthropology, biology, entomology and ornithology in sculptures and installations that explore our conflicted relationship to a culturally mediated nature. She is unusually interested in things that are, or might be, the last of their kind. Exhibitions include; ‘The Greenhouse effect’, Serpentine Gallery, London, (2000); the 26th Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil (2004); and ‘Becoming Animal’, Mass MoCA, MA, (2005). She is represented by Sikkema Jenkins and Co, New York and has exhibited at one person exhibitions, including ‘Lonesome George’ (2005) at Brent Sikkema, New York, NY, where her vivid portraits of a rare Galapogos tortoise and a life-size cast in volcanic glass of a tortoise shell obliquely explored the intersection of natural and human histories.
Janine Antoni
Tuesday, December 8th, RISD Auditorium, 6:30pm
Janine Antoni received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and earned her MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. Antoni’s work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Transforming everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art, Antoni’s primary tool for making sculpture has always been her own body. She has chiseled cubes of lard and chocolate with her teeth, washed away the faces of soap busts made in her own likeness, and used the brainwave signals recorded while she dreamed at night as a pattern for weaving a blanket the following morning. In the video, “Touch,” Antoni appears to perform the impossible act of walking on the surface of water. She accomplished this magician’s trick, however, not through divine intervention, but only after months of training to balance on a tightrope that she then strung at the exact height of the horizon line. Balance is a key component in the related piece, “Moor,” where the artist taught herself how to make a rope out of unusual and often personal materials donated by friends and relatives. By learning to twist the materials together so that they formed a rope that was neither too loose nor too tight, Antoni created an enduring life-line that united a disparate group of people into a unified whole. Antoni has had major exhibitions of her work at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, S.I.T.E. Santa Fe, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. The recipient of several prestigious awards including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in 1998 and the Larry Aldrich Foundation Award in 1999, Janine Antoni currently resides in New York
Three Headed Presents: Adventures in the Land of Smoke and Mirrors
FLUXspace is pleased to present Three Headed, a collaboration between Kim Harty, Rika Hawes, and Charlotte Potter. Their show, “Adventures in the Land of Smoke and Mirrors,” opens June 27th from 6-10PM.
The event is an experimental journey that explores the subversive nature of spectacle, pleasure and entertainment. Modeled after the structure of the carnival, it evokes such canons as the sideshow, burlesque theatre, and the circus.
“Adventures in the Land of Smoke and Mirrors,” also identifies with the Situationalist’s goal of setting up temporary environments towards the fulfillment of primitive human desires. Three Headed uses different optical, mechanical, and technological phenomena to inspire a viewer’s pleasure. “The goal of the show,” says Harty, “is fabrication of spectacular representations which become interchangeable with reality.” Evolving from Foucault’s concept of the Heterotopias, the artists create environments to transport the viewer to spaces that are both real and illusory, as well as mysterious and otherworldly.
“Adventures in the Land of Smoke and Mirrors,” is your chance to take a ride on the Love Boat, travel the Mirror Maze, check out the Peep Show, test your skills in the Shooting Gallery, drink from the Fountain of Youth, view the Cabinet of Curiosities, and see the 3 headed adventurers in action.
Three Headed (Hawes, Harty, and Potter) presents collaborative art events that walk the line- a tight- rope line- between art and entertainment. They work in a variety of media and have also put on the production, “Cirque De Verre, ” a hot glass Circus that has been performed at art centers and museums throughout the country. Cirque De Verre has been profiled in Glass Magazine, and recently performed at the Corning Museum of Glass with up coming shows at Goggle works and the Toledo Museum of Glass. In an effort to make performance art accessible to the audience, they combine their postmodern artistic sensibility with the circus, which Vladamir Lenin referred in 1919 as “the people’s art form.”
The Cirque de Verre
The Cirque de Verre, a glass performance group has collaborated with the RISD glass department and is performing at the Corning Museum of glass March, 19th in the event 2300*
Lecture by Nina Katchadourian
Nina Katchadourian was born in Stanford, California and grew up spending every summer on a small island in the Finnish archipelago, where she still spends part of each year. Her work exists in a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, video and sound. Her work has been exhibited domestically and internationally at places such as PS1/MoMA, the Serpentine Gallery, New Langton Arts, Artists Space, SculptureCenter, and the Palais de Tokyo. In January 2006 the Turku Art Museum in Turku, Finland featured a solo show of works made in Finland, and in June 2006 the Tang Museum in Saratoga Springs exhibited a 10-year survey of her work and published an accompanying monograph entitled “All Forms of Attraction.” The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego presented a solo show of recent video installation works in July 2008. Katchadourian is represented by Sara Meltzer gallery in New York and Catharine Clark gallery in San Francisco.
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