Drawing Conclusions II
dal 11/12/2003 al 13/1/2004
Segnalato da
11/12/2003
Drawing Conclusions II
NYArts Gallery, New York
Work by Artist-Writers. The diptychs by artist-writers in 'Drawing Conclusions II' displays dual facets of expression, enabling viewers to get a more complete picture of creators' vision. In opposition to the standard way of relating text and image, with the artist's statement or illustration, the non-linear correlations between writing and art here give viewers a more poly-dimensional comprehension.
Work by Artist-Writers
Organized by Gae Savannah & Jill Conner
The diptychs by artist-writers in "Drawing Conclusions II" displays dual facets of expression, enabling viewers to get a more complete picture of creators' vision. In opposition to the standard way of relating text and image, with the artist's statement or illustration, the non-linear correlations between writing and art here give viewers a more poly-dimensional comprehension.
Toward the end of the Modern Era, strictly endorsing abstraction, mid-century American art criticism leveraged itself over contemporary art. A variety of artistic styles went largely unrecognized for at least a decade. The critical endeavors on view in this exhibition transcend the schism created between written ideas and artistic form. In addition to finding common ground between art and literature, this event merges the practice of art and art criticism that typically operate in juxtaposition to one another.
"An understanding of the ways in which image, frame, caption, and text routinely conspire together to present an inevitability about the objective world allows us to re-order and reconstruct the relationship between these components, and thereby to contribute to the creation of an infra-reflexive text which crosses over between the visual and verbal domains." -- Elizabeth Chaplain, Sociology and Visual Representation>
Artist-Writers participating (in process): Koan-Jeff Baysa, NY; Tova Beck-Friedman, NY; Matthew Bourbon, TX; Margaret Bouvard, NY; Carol Diehl, MA; Jan Estep, MN; Lily Faust, NY; Laurie Fendrich, NY; Sabine von Fischer, NY/Switzerland; Kyongho Ko, South Korea; Sabrina Gschwandtner, NY; Doug Harvey, CA; Mary Hrbacek, NY; Jens Kabisch, Germany; Jitish Kallat, India; Mary Jean Kenton, PA; Richard Klein, CT; Claire Lieberman, IL; Lenore Malen, NY; Emil Memon, NY; Gregory A. Montreuil, NY/France; Peter Nagy, India; Hideki Nakazawa, Japan; Joseph Nechvatal, NY; Alastair Noble, PA; John O'Brien, Ny; Oscar Satio Oiwa, Japan; Saul Ostrow, OH; Michael Pittari, PA; Maria Porges, CA; Faith Ringgold, NY; Steve Rockwell, Canada; Carol Schwarzman, NY; Greg Shelnutt, NC; Danny Simmons, NY; Ali Soltani, NY; Christopher Stackhouse, NY; Anita Steckel, NY; Howard Stier, NY; LP Streitfield, CT; Vivan Sundaram, India; William Tucker, NY; Bruce Wands, NY; Esme Watanabe, NY; Jeanne Wilkinson, NY; Kathleen Whitney, TX; Tan Xu, China; and Jody Zellen, CA.
*Acknowledgements - Many thanks to Judy Collischan for designing the concept of this show. Additional thanks to Glenn Harper, Robert Curcio, Kristin Anderson, Barbara MacAdam, Peter Frank, Caroline Cox, Su Jin Park, Jenn Tsai, Francesca, Lilly Wei. Gu ZhenQing, Laura Richard Janku, Caren Golden, Abraham Lubelski, Sueo Mizuma, Valerie MacKenzie, Heejun Park, Larry Walczak, Wenjia Wang, and Manami Fujimori.
Gae Savannah, sculptor/installation artist, writes for Flash Art, Sculpture, and D'Art, among other publications.
Jill Conner writes for Artnet, Sculpture, Contemporary, and NY Arts among other publications.
Contact: Jill Conner at (718) 703-0803
Gae Savannah at (212) 254-5423
Hours: Monday - Saturday 10 am - 6 PM.
Opening Reception: FRIDAY, December 12th, 6-8:30 pm
NYArts Gallery 473 Broadway, 7th Floor, New York, NY 10013
(212) 274-8993