News:
New Work: Hopeful Romantic
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Upcoming and Recent Exhibitions:
Isolations
The Lunch Box Gallery
310 NW. 24th St.
Miami, FL 33127
http://www.thelunchboxgallery.
Dates: December 1 - February 25, 2012
Opening: December 1 from 7 to 10 pm
The exhibition gathers four different expressions of the notion of isolation from Lilly McElroy, Dana Meilijson, Rodolfo Vanmarcke and Missy Nuzzo, where human beings or things that belong to them are isolated to make a call for observation and raise a social commentary about the world today. Through the conceptual photographs of these four artists, themes emerge that can go from the exploration of alienation and passivity in our existing societies by experimenting with public reaction, to the examination of depersonalization as a consequence of the mass consumption, which has shaped this world of identical people even though fully convinced of being completely "free".
The photographs reveal situations that are encapsulated in time by the use of photography as a medium, and at the same time, they awake in the viewer a sense of strangeness; a result of unnaturally isolating these situations within their own context, or decontextualizing them by removing elements from their expected frames of reference and placing them into new settings.
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Theater of the Absurd
Perspectives Gallery
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
273 E. Erie St.
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Dates: December 12 – January 13, 2011
The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design’s Perspectives Gallery presents Theater of the Absurd. The spaces latest exhibition is on display from Monday, December 12, 2011 until Friday, January 13, 2011. The opening reception will take place on Tuesday, December 13, 2011.
Theater of the Absurd showcases the work of Lilly McElroy from her series “I Throw Myself at Men.” Selected images from this series will be displayed with the artist’s statement. The work depicts Lilly literally flinging herself at different men in several bar environments.
This exhibition is based on the genre of plays that take the form of tragicomedies where the characters are caught in hopeless situations and forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions. The work provides a look at a literal interpretation of an awkward social interaction, while commenting on fleeting barroom relationships. The action is repeated with no visible outcome, thus suggesting the hopelessness of creating a lasting relationship with the suitors.
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Lilly McElroy…Tough Love
SECCA
750 Marguerite Drive,
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
http://secca.org/?p=457
Dates: November 3 – January 29, 2012
Opening: November 3 from 7 to 10PM
Lilly McElroy is a young, Arizona-born artist who playfully, but poignantly moves between poles of aggression and intimacy embedded in human relationships. Drawing upon clichés, euphe-misms, autobiography and the rituals of urban life, she carries out public performances that confront the tangled dimensions of social interaction. By literally enacting the behaviors we have condemned to “figures of speech,” she re-opens tired metaphors and taboo forms of keeping in touch.
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Gravity
Crawford Art Gallery
Emmet Place
Cork , Ireland
http://www.crawfordartgallery.
Dates: July 16 - October 29, 2011
The labour of rising from the ground, said the artist, will be great, as we see it in the heavier domestic fowls; but, as we mount higher, the earth´s attraction, and the body´s gravity, will be gradually diminished, ´til we shall arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall: no care will then be necessary, but to move forwards, which the gentlest impulse will effect.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759, The History of Rasselas
The idea of gravity as both an actual physical force, and also a metaphor for living, is pervasive. People often refer to the ‘gravity´ of a situation, while the term gravitas is used to describe a somewhat ponderous dignity. However, the way in which artists, both historic and contemporary, work with this physical reality reveals much about how the world is viewed, experienced and interpreted.
The exhibition presents over 50 works by 29 celebrated artists from Marina Abramović and Ulay´s 16mm film Rest Energy (1980); abundant with relational gravity, to Dorothy Cross´s sculptural work Whale (2011) that physically embraces the materiality and suspension of gravity.
Spanning several mediums of painting, drawing, photography, film, print and performance, this show provides a fertile area within which practitioners explore aspects of gravity.
In Antipodes I/II, directed by choreographer William Forsythe, the dancer is shown floating, moving between two tables. While in Li Wei´s photographs, such as Love at the High Place (2004) [below], the artist creates situations which are like frozen moments of extreme choreography.
The recording of performance art, and these records becoming art in their own right, goes back to works such as Failing to Levitate in the Studio (1966) where Bruce Nauman attempted to hover above his studio floor. This exhibition is an intricate and multidisciplinary exploration of the many interpretations of gravity, from science to spirituality, all of which disturb our senses.
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New Work: Hopeful Romantic
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Upcoming and Recent Exhibitions:
Isolations
The Lunch Box Gallery
310 NW. 24th St.
Miami, FL 33127
http://www.thelunchboxgallery.
Dates: December 1 - February 25, 2012
Opening: December 1 from 7 to 10 pm
The exhibition gathers four different expressions of the notion of isolation from Lilly McElroy, Dana Meilijson, Rodolfo Vanmarcke and Missy Nuzzo, where human beings or things that belong to them are isolated to make a call for observation and raise a social commentary about the world today. Through the conceptual photographs of these four artists, themes emerge that can go from the exploration of alienation and passivity in our existing societies by experimenting with public reaction, to the examination of depersonalization as a consequence of the mass consumption, which has shaped this world of identical people even though fully convinced of being completely "free".
The photographs reveal situations that are encapsulated in time by the use of photography as a medium, and at the same time, they awake in the viewer a sense of strangeness; a result of unnaturally isolating these situations within their own context, or decontextualizing them by removing elements from their expected frames of reference and placing them into new settings.
-------------------------------------------
Theater of the Absurd
Perspectives Gallery
Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design
273 E. Erie St.
Milwaukee, WI 53202
Dates: December 12 – January 13, 2011
The Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design’s Perspectives Gallery presents Theater of the Absurd. The spaces latest exhibition is on display from Monday, December 12, 2011 until Friday, January 13, 2011. The opening reception will take place on Tuesday, December 13, 2011.
Theater of the Absurd showcases the work of Lilly McElroy from her series “I Throw Myself at Men.” Selected images from this series will be displayed with the artist’s statement. The work depicts Lilly literally flinging herself at different men in several bar environments.
This exhibition is based on the genre of plays that take the form of tragicomedies where the characters are caught in hopeless situations and forced to do repetitive or meaningless actions. The work provides a look at a literal interpretation of an awkward social interaction, while commenting on fleeting barroom relationships. The action is repeated with no visible outcome, thus suggesting the hopelessness of creating a lasting relationship with the suitors.
___________________________
Lilly McElroy…Tough Love
SECCA
750 Marguerite Drive,
Winston-Salem, NC 27106
http://secca.org/?p=457
Dates: November 3 – January 29, 2012
Opening: November 3 from 7 to 10PM
Lilly McElroy is a young, Arizona-born artist who playfully, but poignantly moves between poles of aggression and intimacy embedded in human relationships. Drawing upon clichés, euphe-misms, autobiography and the rituals of urban life, she carries out public performances that confront the tangled dimensions of social interaction. By literally enacting the behaviors we have condemned to “figures of speech,” she re-opens tired metaphors and taboo forms of keeping in touch.
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Gravity
Crawford Art Gallery
Emmet Place
Cork , Ireland
http://www.crawfordartgallery.
Dates: July 16 - October 29, 2011
The labour of rising from the ground, said the artist, will be great, as we see it in the heavier domestic fowls; but, as we mount higher, the earth´s attraction, and the body´s gravity, will be gradually diminished, ´til we shall arrive at a region where the man will float in the air without any tendency to fall: no care will then be necessary, but to move forwards, which the gentlest impulse will effect.
—Samuel Johnson, 1759, The History of Rasselas
The idea of gravity as both an actual physical force, and also a metaphor for living, is pervasive. People often refer to the ‘gravity´ of a situation, while the term gravitas is used to describe a somewhat ponderous dignity. However, the way in which artists, both historic and contemporary, work with this physical reality reveals much about how the world is viewed, experienced and interpreted.
The exhibition presents over 50 works by 29 celebrated artists from Marina Abramović and Ulay´s 16mm film Rest Energy (1980); abundant with relational gravity, to Dorothy Cross´s sculptural work Whale (2011) that physically embraces the materiality and suspension of gravity.
Spanning several mediums of painting, drawing, photography, film, print and performance, this show provides a fertile area within which practitioners explore aspects of gravity.
In Antipodes I/II, directed by choreographer William Forsythe, the dancer is shown floating, moving between two tables. While in Li Wei´s photographs, such as Love at the High Place (2004) [below], the artist creates situations which are like frozen moments of extreme choreography.
The recording of performance art, and these records becoming art in their own right, goes back to works such as Failing to Levitate in the Studio (1966) where Bruce Nauman attempted to hover above his studio floor. This exhibition is an intricate and multidisciplinary exploration of the many interpretations of gravity, from science to spirituality, all of which disturb our senses.
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