2/11/2000
New Media Lounge
PBICA, Palm Beach
The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA) is featuring video art by Alexander Hahn, Michelle Handelman and Michal Rovner in the New Media Lounge. Located on the second level of the PBICA facility in Lake Worth, Florida, the New Media Lounge is the first in the area to present a rotating series of video and computer art from internationally renowned, as well as emerging, artists.
An exhibition by Alexander Hahn, Michelle Handelman and Michal Rovner.
The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA) is featuring video art by Alexander Hahn, Michelle Handelman and Michal Rovner in the New Media Lounge. Located on the second level of the PBICA facility in Lake Worth, Florida, the New Media Lounge is the first in the area to present a rotating series of video and computer art from internationally renowned, as well as emerging, artists.
This first show in the New Media Lounge is curated by PBICA Director Michael Rush, author of "New Media in Late 20th Century Art" and the forthcoming "Video Art," both from Thames and Hudson.
Included in the exhibition are 'Overhang' by Michal Rovner, which was shown as part of this year's Whitney Biennial Exhibition; "Dirt Site" by Alexander Hahn, a preview of which can be seen at http://www.alexanderhahn.com; and "Candy Land" and "Cannibal" by Michelle Handelman. Each of the artists has a base in New York. Rovner also works in Israel, and Hahn in Switzerland and Italy.
The New Media Lounge opening coincides with the opening of PBICA's newest exhibit, "The Social Scene," from The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation Photography Collection at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art. "The Social Scene" is a photographic exhibition by major artists whose historically significant images encompass an era of great social change. The exhibit is composed of more than 300 photographs echoing transitional times ranging from the 1930s to the 1980s.
Museum hours:
Tuesday-Sunday, 12-6 p.m., and the first and third Fridays from 12 p.m.-8 p.m.
Admission:
$3 for adults, $2 for seniors and students, children under 12 are free.
Free admission is offered every first Friday of the month.
PBICA - Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art - 601 Lake Avenue Lake Worth - Florida 33460 - Tel: 5615820006