Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to present our annual Summer Site-Specific Installations with this year’s participants, Andra Samelson, Tamiko Kawata, and Erwin Redl.
Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to present our annual Summer
Site-Specific Installations with this year’s participants, Andra
Samelson, Tamiko Kawata, and Erwin Redl.
Andra Samelson: Hands On, June 1 - June 9.
Samelson’s installation celebrates the hand-made. Drawing hands directly
on the wall with paper dots, she enlarges their size to emphasize the
human element in an increasingly digital world. The dotted lines create
phantom contours which continuously shift the focus between the space
inside and outside. Andra Samelson exhibited at Kenise Barnes Fine Art,
Stone Quarry Hill Art Park, New York University, PS 122 Gallery and Pardo
Lattuada, among others. She was a Fellowship Award Winner for the New
York Foundation for the Arts and has recently been commissioned for an
outdoor installation by The New Jersey Transit Authority for the city of
Hoboken, New Jersey.
Tamiko Kawata: Passing Life - Three Falls, June 14 - 23.
Kawata’s art making is her diary in visual form. It is an expression of
her feelings and comment on life. She likes to use common materials that
she finds around her in everyday life. They are about ephemeral life.
They look sturdy & solid but pass away. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, next
year becomes last year. Tamiko affirms "our parents pass away, we will
pass away and give it to the next generation, and the next, like a river
continues running. Our life is like a big beautiful yet tough and strong
waterfall, a certain portion of a continuous river that visually stands
out." Tamiko Kawata has exhibited at the University Art Gallery -
Staller Center for the Arts, Carrige House/Islip Museum, Contemporary Art
and Craft Gallery in Portland, OR, Stone Quarry Hill Art Park and Snug
Harbor Cultural Center, among others. She is the current recipient of
the Yaddo, Louise Bourgeois Residency Award for a Sculptor. Kawata will
be featured at the Takano Art Gallery in 2002.
Erwin Redl: The Matrix III, June 26 - July 7.
Redl’s work reflects upon the condition of art making after the "digital
experience." The formal and structural approach to various media he
employs, such as installation, CD-ROM, internet and sound, requires
binary logic. Redl assembles the material according to a narrow set of
self-imposed rules which often incorporate algorithms, controlled
randomness and other methods inspired by computer code.
Erwin Redl holds an MFA in Computer Art from School of Visual Arts, New
York and a BA in Composition and Electronic Music from the Music Academy,
Vienna. In 1997/98 he participated in the International Studio Residency
Program at P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. For his studies at
School of Visual Arts, the artist was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship.
Erwin Redl has lived and worked in New York since 1993.
Opening receptions will be held
on June 1, June 14, and June 26 from 6-9 pm.
Gallery hours are Wednesday to Saturday 11 to 6p.m. The gallery will be
open by appointment only from July 11 through the 31st and will be closed
in August. We will re-open on September 6 with a photographic
installation by Linda Van Boven. For further information and
photographic material, please contact Florence Lynch or Angelina N. Ebreo
at 967-7584.
Florence Lynch Gallery, 147 West 29th Street, New York, 10001. USA
Tel. 967-7584. Fax. 967-9264