Sites Around the City
dal 7/3/2000 al 4/6/2000
Segnalato da
7/3/2000
Sites Around the City
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
The project will
present art by artists who use visual and material
languages to examine cultural, perceptual and
phenomenological issues of the land, whether
specific or archetypal. The inspiration for the
project comes from Phoenix's heady mix of city
and desert, and the history of environmental art
in the area. The Southwest has a rich history for
artists, beginning with ancient Native Americans
and continuing through the earthwork artists of
the 1960s and 70s. Today Phoenix is the sixth
largest city in the nation and home to innovative
eco-art projects. It is also a place of extremes
that inspire and inform these art projects, from
the 120-degree heat in the summer to the
manicured golf courses and man-made lakes,
from expanding pollution problems to the
Western insistence on the car. Phoenix is a
metaphor for the expansion of cities throughout
the Southwest and the nation.
Citywide project committee is co-managed by
Heather Sealy Lineberry and Felicie Regnier.
EXHIBITION AT THE ARIZONA STATE
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM:
The ASU Art Museum's exhibition and catalogue
will present the most challenging contemporary
art in the citywide project Sites Around the City:
Art and Environment. Sculpture, photography,
site-specific installations (inside and outside the
museum) and video installations will explore the
interconnections of the built and the organic, the
artificial and the natural, culture and nature -
essentially the interaction between humans and
the land. The exhibition will focus on
contemporary artists who are cognizant of but
reject the remoteness and idealism of the
earthwork artists and the didacticism of
eco-artists. Robert Smithson abhorred cities
and sited his land art projects in timeless
landscapes with no boundaries and with
alternative measures of time and history. These
younger artists have found the same sense of
the infinite and chaotic in urban and suburban
landscapes, and find these environments more
pertinent to contemporary experience. Their art
is more cynical, yet also more accepting, of the
resulting flawed beauty and tensions between
the natural and the cultivated in the urban and
suburban. They explore in their art perceptions
of the landscape, patterns of behavior, and
cultural and developmental impact on the land.
ASU ART MUSEUM PRESENTATION AND
CATALOGUE:
Curated by Heather Sealy Lineberry, the work
will be installed in two 2,500-square-foot
galleries and outside areas of the ASU Art
Museum's Nelson Fine Arts Center facility, which
Antoine Predock designed to respond to the
landscape and culture of the area. The project
includes: a color, 64-page catalogue with
essays; a website that will grow with the project;
a visitor resource center with internet access to
research historic and contemporary artists; and
a separate guide to the citywide exhibition and
programs printed by Arizona Public Service. The
ASU Art Museum exhibition catalogue will
include essays by Heather Sealy Lineberry
(artists and their work) and Ronald Jones
(contemporary connections between art and
environment).
ASU ART MUSEUM EXHIBITING ARTISTS:
Su-Chen Hung's and Diana Thater's video
installations explore cultural perceptions of the
land and nature. Roxy Paine painstakingly
recreates natural elements, such as a field of
poppies from steel, wire, polymer, vinyl, lacquer,
oil paint, epoxy, pigment. Kim Abeles collects
layers of smog on screens that mimic familiar,
romantic Hudson River School landscape
paintings. During the ASU Art Museum side by
side with the original works from the Museum
questioning our perceptions of the American
land still influenced by nineteenth-century
thought. Michael Ashkin creates tabletop
dioramas of the edges of cities, of sublime
industrial wastelands. Catherine Opie
photographs strip malls, suburban facades and
freeway structures that multiply in Western cities
and have become our identifiable monuments.
Todd Hido captures atmospheric, nighttime
slices of suburban architecture. On closer
examination these original California suburbs
are deteriorating, experiencing the same
entropy that Smithson found in the Great Salt
Lake. Stephanie Brooks mimics the need to
mediate the experience of nature with signage.
Her Feel Good Here was a witty pop-psychology
rendition of the exercise park. She will create a
signage system on the ASU Campus drawing
upon the history of the area and the patterns of
behavior of the current population. Finally, Laurie
Lundquist uses her knowledge of botany and
landscape architecture to create artworks that
actually restore the environment. Working at the
Exploratorium in San Francisco, she developed
an elaborate installation to repair the Lagoon.
She will create a site-specific installation of an
algae garden in the interior courtyard of the
Museum designed building.
CITYWIDE PARTICIPANTS:
* ArtLab 16 - a group exhibitions and Spoken
Word Series. Exhibitions: March 3-31, April
7-28, Spoken Word; Every Friday.
* Artlink - temporary installations during
ArtDetour.
* ASU Art Museum - Sites Around the City
headquarters for the entire project. Exhibition of
nine contemporary artists who consider the
urban and suburban environment, artist lectures,
youth programs, March 3 - June 4.
* ASU Art Museum Experimental Gallery -
PHACAEANS desktop video/laptop installation
by Sloane McFarland, April 7 - May 27.
* ASU West Gallery - three sound artists from
Mexico City, Gustavo Artigas, Ariel Guzik and
Taniel Morales, March 2-26.
* Barlow & Straker - Turbulencia Terrenal
Collaborative project between Andy Guzzonatto
and Mona Higuchi, March 7-31.
* Central Gallery; Burton Barr Central Library - A
series of five exhibitions focusing on art and
environment. Exhibitions: February 28 - March
24, March 1-30, April 1-30, April 3-29.
* Desert Botanical Garden - Desert Plant
Illustrations, March 4 - April 15. Book signings:
March 4,18,25 and April 1,15.
* East Side Art, Mesa - a series of juried shows.
Exhibitions: March 12-20, March 21 - April 10,
April 11-20, April 21 - May 10.
* Galeria Mesa, Mesa Art Center - Environment
2000, national juried exhibition juried by Lisa
Sette, April 18 - May 27.
* Grand Canyon University, A.P. Tell Gallery -
Sprawl: Reflections on Urban Development,
March 22 - April 13.
* Harry Wood Gallery on the ASU campus - MFA
exhibition of Azdine Sedjal, February 28 - March
3.
* MARS Artspace - Solo exhibition by Felicie
Regnier and Mars on Earth a group exhibition by
MARS artists, March 3-31.
* Metropolitan Arts Institute - Student exhibition
inspired by workshop with Los Angeles artist
Kim Abeles, April 7-28.
* Modified - Matthew J. Plausible and Ian Van
Coller, March 3 - April 3.
* Northlight Gallery, ASU - Transport by Dean K.
Terasaki, March 3-22.
* Phoenix Art Museum - Images of Nature:
Selections from the Museum Collection,
February 5 - May 14.
* Phoenix Arts Commission - temporary
installations with recycled materials at the 27th
Avenue Solid Waste Treatment Facility
.
* Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art -
Dreaming of Eden: Meditations on the Garden
by Barbara Rogers, February 26 - May 7.
* Shemer Art Center - outdoor installations and
sculpture, March - April.
* Stop'n'Look - New Life New Century by Rose
Johnson, February 1 - March 31. Installation by
Denis Gillingwater, April 4 - May 20.
* Tempe Arts Commission - temporary
installation, site tours on their electric art buses.
PERMANENT SITES:
* 27th Avenue Solid Waste Management Facility
Artists - Linnea Glatt and Michael Singer
* 7th Avenue Pedestrian Bridge/Grasshopper
Bridge Artist - Ed Carpenter
* Papago Park/City Boundary Artists - Jody
Pinto and Steve Martino
* Sunnyslope Canal Demonstration Project
Artists - M. Paul Friedberg, Jackie Ferrara,
Douglas Hollis, Steve Martino and Martin R.
Yoklic.
* Sunnyslope Rock Garden Artist - Grover
Cleveland Thompson
* The Path Most Traveled... Artist - Carolyn
Braaksma
* Water to Water Artists - Edwards Tanz
Collaborative, Inc.
* Sweet Acacia Project Artist - Laurie Lundquist
* Hummingbird Sanctuary Garden Artist - Kevin
Berry
* Papago Arroyo Artist - Laurie Lundquist
* Rio Salado Pathways Artist - Laurie Lundquist
* Gardens for Humanity's Demonstration Healing
Garden Artists - Local Artsist, ASU Architecture
Students, School Children, Programs
Sponsored by the Arizona Commision on the
Arts.
SPECIAL EVENTS:
* Arizona State University Art Museum Sites
Around the City Free public opening reception,
March 3, 7-9pm.
* Artlink Inc. Sponsors and Organizers of Art
Detour Weekend
* IceHouse Art Museum The Rise and Fall of
Elegance, Art Detour Weekend
* 27th Avenue Solid Waste Management
Facility/Phoenix Arts Commission Events
throughout the month of April.
* Desert Botanical Garden Events throughout the
month of April.
Arizona State University Art Museum
Tenth Street and Mill Avenue
Tempe, Arizona 85287-2911
480.965.2787