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17/7/2002

Wendy Wischer

Kimberly Venardos, New York

KIMBERLY VENARDOS & COMPANY is pleased to announce the opening of EXPECTING RAIN, an exhibition of new work by WENDY WISCHER. Please join us at a reception for the artist Thursday, July 18th from 6pm to 9pm. The exhibition will remain on view through August 30, 2002. KIMBERLY VENARDOS & COMPANY is located at 1014 Madison Avenue, between 78th and 79th Streets.

From behind the windows of a car WENDY WISCHER looks out, watching as drops of rain gleam and dance on the glass. Capturing these simple, fleeting moments with her lens, she envisions an environment altered - one that has been fractured, redefined and now reveals, through light and reflection, a new landscape. EXPECTING RAIN - Wendy Wischer’s first solo exhibition in New York, features a series of C-print photographs taken by the Miami-based artist over the past year, displayed in conjunction with a site-specific multimedia installation incorporating sound and water.

Continuing her conceptual explorations into the synthesis of the natural and the man-made, Wischer’s 'Rain Series' presents images that depict the formal beauty of the elements while making reference to their influence and effect on all that man creates. Fusing nature with contemporary technology, Wischer's intuitive work offers a portal through which to explore the monumental within the minute, the sacred within the ordinary. Isolated bursts of form and color punctuate her settings and are magnified - a palm tree, a skyscraper, the lights of passing cars. Losing their common significance, her vivid images - both artificial and organic - reinterpret and mirror experience.

Echoing the formal and thematic concerns examined in the photographs, the site-specific installation examines Wischer’s process and invites the viewer to contemplate as well as participate in the ways in which art, technology, man and nature reflect and inform one another.

WENDY WISCHER has exhibited at the Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, in the exhibition Globe Miami Island (2001) curated by Robert Chambers, and is currently included in A Painting for Over the Sofa (that’s not necessarily a Painting), a traveling exhibition curated by Bernice Steinbaum, which will visit over a dozen institutions nationally through 2004. Wischer is the recipient of two New Forms Grants (2001 and 2000), funded by the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs. Earlier this year she was commissioned to design an outdoor, site-specific installation for the Pineapple Grove Art Walk, Delray Beach, on view through 2003. Wischer holds a BFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and an MFA from Florida

State University. Summer gallery hours: Monday through Friday, 10am - 6pm

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