Dianna Frid
dal 8/9/2005 al 8/10/2005
Segnalato da
8/9/2005
Dianna Frid
Julia Friedman Gallery, New York
Crater and Transport. The artist is interested in the tension between the systems used to describe the world and the world that exists in spite of these systems. Culling from sources that relate to cartography, astronomy, architecture, botany and geology, she reconfigures diagrams and shapes that result in drawings, collages, and sculptures.
Crater and Transport
Julia Friedman Gallery is pleased to announce Crater and Transport, new sculpture and collage works by Dianna Frid. The exhibition will run between September 9 and October 8.
Frid is interested in the tension between the systems used to describe the world and the world that exists in spite of these systems. Culling from sources that relate to cartography, astronomy, architecture, botany and geology, Frid reconfigures diagrams and shapes that result in drawings, collages, and sculptures. Her work addresses the relationship between the imaginable, the known, and the unknown.
Frid uses images such as staircases, craters, rivers, ships and ferris wheels as emblems that loosely evoke mapping, movement, time and lingering anachronisms. Crater and Transport includes a large-scale work entitled, Launch Pad for Ferris Wheel (from the To Go to the Moon Series). In a recent catalogue essay, Dominic Molon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago curator wrote, "Launch Pad for Ferris Wheel humorously combines constructions built to sate our inherent longing for experiences that transport us-however temporarily-from our earthbound existence. In doing so, she engages a subtle parody of our perhaps more high-minded desires for interstellar escapism and conquest." Another work in the exhibition, Transport II, refers to the Palm House at Kew Gardens, which claims to house the oldest potted plant in a European collection: an African Palm tree that has obsessed Frid since her visit to the Gardens in 1998. Frid turns the greenhouse into a time machine, one that protects and projects the palm into the future.
Crater and Transport is Dianna Frid's first solo exhibition at Julia Friedman Gallery. A School of the Art Institute of Chicago graduate, Frid has shown at venues such as The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburg; Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York; Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder; Gallery 400, Chicago; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago; and CROXHAPOX, Gent, Belgium. A recent Artadia award recipient, Frid will present a solo project at Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago in February 2006. Frid currently teaches at The University of Chicago.
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