Future Present
dal 28/6/2011 al 30/7/2011
Segnalato da
28/6/2011
Future Present
AMOA-Arthouse - The Jones Center, Austin
This exhibition brings together five artists investigating new approaches to making artwork in the age of the Internet. Working within stylistic forms and tropes appropriated from popular culture and mass media, each artist examines a character within the self-contained video genre.
Austin, TX (March 28, 2011) – Arthouse at the Jones Center presents Future Present: Five Artists, Five Weeks, an exhibition of video work by John Kilduff, Jennifer Sullivan, Brian Bress, Frankie Martin, and Shana Moulton. Each artist’s work will be on view for one week during the month of July in the 2nd floor gallery.
This exhibition brings together five artists investigating new approaches to making artwork in the age of the Internet. Working within stylistic forms and tropes appropriated from popular culture and mass media, each artist examines a character (or multiple characters in the case of Brian Bress) within the self–contained video genre. All of the works are staged simply and are related aesthetically to home videos. Each artist tactically uses humor as a key element to engage with the audience, which in turn creates engaging narratives that are fashioned from our everyday realities. John Kilduff’s long-running Monday through Friday Internet TV series Let’s Paint TV has the artist don a suit, paint while running on a treadmill, make smoothies, cook, and take calls from his audience. In One Week Walden, Jennifer Sullivan wanders in and around her father’s pop-up camper in his backyard while trying to connect to the land as Henry David Thoreau once did. Brian Bress’ Status Report fixates on six individual characters, all played by the artist, that flash across the screen in bouts of imaginative nonsense. Frankie Martin’s series Trapped in the Web satirizes the popular YouTube series lonelygirl15. Frankie’s character Franiquoah finds herself alone inside of the Internet, left to freak out in an existential crisis by way of frantic attempts to reconnect with the real world. Shana Moulton’s dreamy series Whispering Pines follows her character Cynthia through trials and tribulations of Cynthia’s inner world. Cynthia, intent on bettering herself, surrounds herself with numerous New Age objects such as animal fountains, spherical lightning lamps, and self-help books that in turn transport her deeper into her faux reality.
John Kilduff lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from UCLA and his BFA from the Otis College of Art and Design. His Monday-Friday Let’s Paint TV Internet show has been on the air since 2006. Solo and group exhibitions include the Denler Art Center, St. Paul, MN; Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles; Kavi Gupta Gallery, Berlin; and Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin. Jennifer Sullivan lives and works in New York. She received her MFA from Parsons School of Design and her BFA from the Pratt Institute. She will attend the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture this summer. Solo and group exhibitions include Freight + Volume, New York; Raid Projects, Los Angeles; La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Montreal; and Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco. Brian Bress lives and works in Los Angeles. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received his MFA from UCLA and his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. Solo and group exhibitions include the Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA; Inman Gallery, Houston; Zach Feuer Gallery, New York; and the ICA, Philadelphia. Frankie Martin currently lives in San Diego and is receiving her MFA from the University of California at San Diego. She holds a BFA from the Tyler School of Art. Solo and group exhibitions include Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA; Locust Projects, Miami; and Grimmuseum, Berlin. Shana Moulton lives and works in New York. She attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, received her MFA from Carnegie Mellon University and her BFA from UC Berkeley. Solo and group exhibitions include Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam; Art in General, New York; the Tate Modern, London; and the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH.
Exhibition order:
John Kilduff: June 29- July 3
Jennifer Sullivan: July 6- July 10
Brian Bress: July 13- July 17
Frankie Martin: July 20- July 24
Shana Moulton: July 27- July 31
Support
Arthouse Season Sponsors: Austin Ventures, Four Hands Home, Intercontinental Hotel – Stephen F. Austin, and Jones Villalta Asset Management
Arthouse at the Jones Center is supported in part by the City of Austin through the Cultural Arts Division and by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and an award from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes a great nation deserves great art. Additional support provided by individuals, corporations, foundations and Arthouse members.
Opening 29 june
Arthouse at the Jones Center
700 Congress Avenue 512, Austin
Hours: Wednesday: noon – 11pm. Thursday – Saturday: noon – 9pm. Sunday: noon – 5pm
Admission free