Janet Echelman
dal 4/12/2001 al 12/1/2002
Segnalato da
4/12/2001
Janet Echelman
Florence Lynch Gallery, New York
Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to announce an installation by Janet Echelman. Targe swooping down... Bullseye!, a 20,000 square foot hand-knotted lace sculpture will be on view from December 5. The initial reference for Target swooping down... was Jasper Johns' target paintings and his physicalization of visual symbols in painting. In Echelman's versions, the target symbol not only breaks the boundary of illusion to become physical, but it leaves the picture plane and moves through space, interacting with the very air and space that we occupy.
Target swooping down...Bullseye! (Variation #3)
Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to announce an installation by Janet Echelman.
Target swooping down...Bullseye!, a 20,000 square foot hand-knotted lace
sculpture will be on view from December 5 through January 12, 2002.
Originally made for the International Trade Fair Complex (IFEMA) in Madrid,
Spain, the sculpture was viewed by more than 180,000 visitors during ARCO. In a
second installation in Spain, the sculpture was altered for the headquarters of
the Caja de Burgos in the Casa del Cordón, a 15th-century stone courtyard where
Christopher Columbus was welcomed home from the New World by Queen Isabella and
King Ferdinand. The piece was enjoyed by the bank's clients and visitors from
June through August, 2001. Target will have its first US viewing when it opens
at the gallery on December 5.
The initial reference for Target swooping down... was Jasper Johns' target
paintings and his physicalization of visual symbols in painting. In Echelman's
versions, the target symbol not only breaks the boundary of illusion to become
physical, but it leaves the picture plane and moves through space, interacting
with the very air and space that we occupy. In its New York debut, Target
swooping down... breaks down a new barrier: the structure of the gallery itself.
Beginning in the gallery as a physical wall and floor drawing, the piece escapes
the building and begins to interact with urban airspace, that cacophony that is
New York City.
A native of Florida, Echelman lives and works in New York City. She has
presented numerous installations and exhibitions in the U.S. and overseas,
among them at the Arthur M. Sackler Museum and Fogg Art Museum of Harvard
University, the Tampa Museum of Art in Florida, The Fields Sculpture Museum in
Omi, New York, the University of Connecticut's Atrium Gallery, the Fung Ping
Shan Museum of Hong Kong University, the Harvard University Graduate School of
Design Currents Gallery, and a solo-exhibition curated by Robert Rauschenberg.
This sculpture was made possible by grants from the American Institute of Indian
Studies and the G.V. Memorial Trust Foundation for Art and Culture.
Gallery hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 11:00 to 6:00 p.m. For
further information and visual material, please contact Florence Lynch or
Young-Eun Choi at 967-7584.
Opening Reception: Wednesday, December 5, 6:00 to 9:00 p.m.
Catalogue available with essays by Denise Carvalho and Joan Lebold Cohen
Gallery News:
Dorothy Arnold's retrospective exhibition is currently at the Lemmerman
Gallery, New Jersey City University, closing Dec. 21. (Catalogue Available)
Odili Donald Odita is one of the recipients of the Joan Mitchell Award. The
prestigious award/grant is given annually to young painters in support of
their career.
The Odili Donald Odita catalogue is available at the gallery.
Craig Fisher is currently exhibiting (one-person show) at Galerie Corinne
Caminade, in Paris. (Catalogue Available)
Florence Lynch Gallery
147 West 29th Street, NY 10001
T : 212 967-7584