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25/4/2012

Two exhibitions

Boutwell Draper Gallery, Sydney

Art + Architecture 2012
The Greening of Sydney - Parks / Cycle Ways / Rain Gardens
26 April - 23 May 2012

In recent years Sydney has celebrated new and upgraded Parks, Cycleways and Rain Gardens, with some parks being upgraded for the first time in 100 years. The fifth exhibition in our ongoing series Art + Architecture will present selected projects by 12 Sydney Architectural Companies - ASPECT Studios, Clouston Associates,
HASSELL, James Mather Delaney Design, Jane Irwin Landscape Architects, KI Studio, McGregor Coxall, Oculus, Phillips Marler, Spackman Mossop Michaels, Sue Barnsley Design and Taylor Brammer.

Green is all about keeping the city in balance; it is about the way we live, work and play. If we get the environment right, expand our urban forest with new parks, cycle ways, rain gardens and upgrade existing green spaces and public playgrounds, people feel at home and encouraged to connect with their local community. In a happy community the economy will thrive and the support for art and culture will increase. The city becomes a place people want to be during the week and also during the weekend.

To be opened at 7 pm by Clover Moore, the Lord Major of Sydney and followed by a talk by Professor Ken Maher, Chairman HASSELL. 


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Jay Mark Johnson
No such Place

Jay Mark Johnson’s current ‘Spacetime’ photographic series began with rudimentary experiments in 2005. Over the course of this project he increasingly applies the full range of his experiences, from visual arts and cinema to studies in the anthropological and cognitive sciences.

In order to understand the large-format photographs of American artist Jay Mark Johnson (*1955) it is crucial to grasp their underlying paradox: while the images are created purely photographically, without digital manipulation or staging of a scene, and therefore depict actual events, they still create a perfectly illusory pictorial world. Johnson employs a modified camera which over a set period of time keeps recording the same narrow vertical strip in front of the camera lens and combines the successive photographs into an uninterrupted image that flows evenly from left to right.

Jay Mark Johnson was educated at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies and has worked as an assistant to Peter Eisenman, as well as for Rem Koolhaas and Aldo Rossi. Works of his are in the permanent collections of the MOMA in New York, the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., the Art Institute of Chicago, as well as the Collection Frederick R. Weisman, Los Angeles and the Langen Foundation, Hombroich, Germany. Johnson's varied and prolific career spans theatre and performance art, photography, live musical performance, and journalism.
He co-founded three different alternative television collectives first in Manhattan, and then in Mexico and El Salvador during the eighties at the height of political repression and unrest in those countries. After his return from Latin America he started working in the movie industry and is now a film director with broad experience in visual effects production, having supervised, directed or otherwise contributed to the computer generated imagery for nearly a dozen major studio films and television series, such as Outbreak, Matrix, Titanic, Tank Girl, Moulin Rouge, White Oleander, and music videos for the Red Hot Chili Peppers and others. Jay Mark Johnson lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.

No such Place, presents a selection of the artist's large format color photographs from Prague, Belgrade, Hong Kong, Hazard (Kentucky) and Valencia (Spain). The artworks offer a playful and critically engaging look at the industrialization of the landscape - on the street, in train yards and in open pit coalmines.
A selection of ocean wave timelines produced along the coasts of Mexico and California will also be on show.

Image: Jay Mark Johnson, El Anarquista y el Tren, Valencia, Spain 2008 (Detail). Durst Lambda, film, aluminum 110 x 518 cm. Edition of 3

Opening Thursday 26 April 6-8 pm
To be opened at 6.30 pm by Professor Mark Ledbury, Director of the Power Institute, University of Sydney

The exhibition is part of the Head On Festival, Sydney, May 2012

Boutwell Draper Gallery
82-84 George Street . Redfern, Sydney NSW 2016 Australia
opening hours:
Wednesday - Saturday 11am - 5pm

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