Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to present our annual Summer Site-Specific Installations curated by Young-Eun Choi. This year's participants are Jenny Lynn McNutt, Megan McLarney, Tricia McLaughlin and Mark Shunney.
Summer Site-Specific Installations: June - July 2002
June 4- 29, 2002
Florence Lynch Gallery is pleased to present our annual Summer Site-Specific Installations curated by Young-Eun Choi.
This year's participants are
Jenny Lynn McNutt, Megan McLarney, Tricia McLaughlin and Mark Shunney.
Opening receptions will be held on June 4, June 11, June 18 and June 25,
from 6-9 p.m.
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Jenny Lynn McNutt: Protean Bodies & Coding Trickster, June 4-8,
Jenny Lynn McNutt is an artist whose work explores the restless human form
assembling and dissembling in a ritual space. Her explorations of the
human form have mutated into sculptural objects and extended into
multimedia performance and installation.
In this show McNutt shows
groupings of small figural sculptures with whispering and murmuring sound
effects. They are mutations of generative boundaries in frozen moments.
The porous boundaries, productive of meaning and possibility, are where
fantasy and organism are siblings. We are seeing double in a world that
has become the theatre of a coding trickster.
Jenny Lynn McNutt received
MFA from Yale University and currently teaches at Pratt Institute.
Opening
Reception: June 4, 6-9 p.m.
Image: a work by Jenny Lynn McNutt
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Megan McLarney: Landscapes for 9 Monitors, June 11-15,
This 9 channel video installation features wide composite views of
tourist attractions, vacation spots, and vistas from Colorado, France,
Arizona, Tunisia, and New York. Developed over the last three years,
McLarney's landscape breaks the traditional framing of video work and
explores the possibilities of larger, multi-monitor, composite video work.
McLarney borrows from the tradition of landscape painting while adding a
new dimension of time within the spaces. Appearance of human figure is
greatly reduced and the movement in the landscape is minimal, barely
there.
It's as if you were peering through a window into some other time.
Megan McLarney is a bright young artist who holds BFA in Film & Animation
from Rhode Island School of Design and had her first solo show last April
at ONI Gallery in Boston.
Opening Reception:
June 11, 6-9 p.m.
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Tricia McLauhglin: Running Animation, June 18-22,
McLaughlin often work from arbitrary designs and force human behavior to
adapt to that structure.
Many of the designs are realized in the form of
3D animation since they would never actually be built. The characters that
she always uses, Hefty Man and Slender Woman from the software package
IfiniD, function as everyman and everywoman.
In this installation they are
both simply running but in opposite directions.
They appear to run only
when the viewer is also running. The behavior of watching an animation is
now dependent on the active participation of the viewer. McLaughlin
received MFA from Hunter College and BFA from Syracuse University.
She has
also participated in the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in
1992 and the "Artists in the Marketplace" program at the Bronx Museum in
2001.
Opening Reception: June
18, 6-9 p.m.
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Mark Shunney: Untitled (enclosure installation), June 25-29,
The enclosure series isolates volumes of space in an already defined piece
of architecture, heightening the perception of light and time. Mark
Shunney uses live feed video to capture an empty and raw finished interior
of the structure that he builts, not the activities of people moving
through spaces. The unfinished look of each unit stands out and off of the
white gallery walls. It eliminates the presence of people and poses the
question of what exactly we are looking at and why using the surveillance
to capture the banality of time in a manmade space. Mark Shunney received
MFA from Rhode Island School of Design and BFA from University of
Massachusetts Dartmouth. He is the founder and director of the Brooklyn
Front in DUMBO, Brooklyn, NY.
Opening
Reception, June 25, 6-9 p.m.
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Gallery hours for these exhibitions are Tuesday to Saturday 11 to 6 p.m.
The gallery will be closing from July till September. We will re-open in
September with an installation by Rebecca Smith. For further information
and photographic material, please contact Florence Lynch or Young-Eun Choi
at 967-7584.
Florence Lynch Gallery, 147 West 29th Street, New York, 967-7584