Everson Biennial
dal 3/3/2000 al 14/5/2000
Segnalato da
3/3/2000
Everson Biennial
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
Current trends in art of the central New York region will be on view during the 2000 Everson Biennial. Presented at the Everson Museum of Art from March 4 through May 14, 2000, the exhibition includes 55 works by 36 artists who reside within a geographic area bordered by Genesee, Montgomery, St. Lawrence, and Delaware counties.
The 2000 Everson Biennial will open on Friday, March 3 at 5:30 pm with a lecture by juror Joe Amrhein and an opening reception from 6:00 to 8:00 pm featuring music by Lise Winne and Jason Kessler. The cost is $10.00 for non-members and free for Everson Museum members.
The 2000 Everson Biennial, a juried exhibition, elicited a strong response from central New York artists. Over two hundred and sixty artists living within 100 miles of Syracuse submitted more than 1,000 works for consideration. Joe Amrhein, founder and director of Pierogi 2000, a gallery in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, juried the works. Mr. Amrhein has organized and developed significant exhibitions in America and Europe. The International Art Critics Associated named his 1997 show "Robert Smithson's Dead Tree" (co-curated with Brian Conley) one of the best shows in the U.S. for 1996-97. His most recent exhibitions include "Brooklyn, New Work" (co-curated with David Brown) at the Contemporary Arts Center in Cincinnati and at the Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery (University of the Arts) in Philadelphia.
Mr. Amrhein was also asked to select a best-of-show award, the recipient of which will be offered a solo exhibition at the Everson in 2001. This year's recipient is Linn Underhill of Lisle, New York, for her silver gelatin print series No-Man's Land (After George Platt Lynes).
Everson Senior Curator Thomas Piché notes that the exhibition is characterized by "an overall sense of highly individualized expression: many of the works appear to document or be directly derived from personal experience; others reflect obsessive art practice - labors of love seemingly produced for personal satisfaction. Almost half the show is made up of photography and work that is photo-based, a condition that reflects the significant role of that medium in contemporary art discourse. There is also a strong showing of paintings, works on paper, sculpture, and large-scale installations."
The exhibition has grown out of a long tradition of regional exhibitions held in Syracuse beginning as early as 1902. Since 1974, the biennial has evolved into a showcase for the work of artists in central New York State, offering a rewarding survey of the vibrant art scene that thrives in this region.