Emily Prince
dal 10/2/2011 al 4/3/2011
Segnalato da
10/2/2011
Emily Prince
Jack Hanley Gallery, New York
Romancing the Stone. Consisting of drawings, animation, and an altered photograph this body of work explores the cognitive dissonance we experience over the passage of time and our continued efforts to trace the contours of present's absence.
The Jack Hanley Gallery is pleased to present Romancing the Stone, a
solo exhibition by Emily Prince. Consisting of drawings, animation,
and an altered photograph this body of work explores the cognitive
dissonance we experience over the passage of time and our continued
efforts to trace the contours of present's absence.
Horses, clocks, rocks: Emily materializes each as subjects of our
desire for ghosts, of our longing to possess our immaterial past.
Each subject, observed through a different relation to time, attempts
the illusory fixing of presence. Horses are traced again and again
in the hopes of reliving a fleeting moment; a time stamp on a family
photograph is magnified blurring all recognition of the lineage it
seeks to capture; and pocket-sized rocks are meticulously mapped in a
pursuit of mastery over the scale of geologic time. Faced with one
another in the space of the gallery, they converge into an atlas of
temporal instabilities marking the ways nostalgia is practically and
psychologically configured.
Along one wall the layered tracing of horses, sourced from the still
shots of motion pictures, animates a fading stampede. Emily's
replicated lines are delicate, almost threatening to disappear. This
impulsive motion, however, is opposed by a mindful, scientific
cartography of small stones. Every penciled detail seeks a symbolic
command over the sublime abyss of time the stone encapsulates. With
every piece on paper, itself an index to the ephemeral, Romancing the
Stone insights a bafflement that makes fantastical our own human
time-frame and the vanishing of all that immateriality.
Emily Prince was born in 1981 and grew up in Gold Run, California.
She graduated from Stanford in 2003 with Bachelor's Degrees in both
Studio Art and Psychology and completed her MFA in Art at U. C.
Berkeley in 2008. She makes process-driven non-linear maps, which
manifest in mixed media installations that often incorporate time as
a medium. Her work has been shown nationally at the Kent Gallery and
the Eleanor Harwood Gallery and internationally at the Venice
Biennale and the Saatchi Gallery where her project, American
servicemen and women who have died in Iraq and Afghanistan, but not
including the wounded, nor the Iraqis, nor the Afghans, can be seen.
She currently lives and works in San Francisco.
For more information or images please contact Katie Schetlick at 646
918 6824/ Katie@jackhanley.com
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