Art exhibition of interdisciplinary sculpture, performance and sound
Art exhibition of interdisciplinary sculpture, performance and sound
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Westernized, Watered-down Zen Philosophies
an exhibition of interdisciplinary sculpture, imagery and sound.
Please join us during the 2015 Bushwick Open Studios for an exhibition of interdisciplinary works by: Greg Climer, Julien Gardair, Hee Chan Kim, Angelo Jones, Roarke Menzies, Jonathan Niederer, Andrew Cornell Robinson, Brett Sroka, Brian Andrew Whiteley.
Reception: Saturday 6 June, from 6pm - 10pm
Open: Saturday 6 June and Sunday 7 June, 2015 from 12pm - 6pm
Location: Fred Frelinghuysen Presents... at 18-66 Troutman Street (Car Park), Ridgewood, Queens, 11385
(Between Onderdonk and Woodward Av, Jefferson stop on the L-train)
Excerpt from a conversation during a gallery opening…
Q: “What do you do?”
A: “I’m an artist.”
Q: “What kind of art do you make?”
A: “Well I do allot of things, but mostly ceramic, sculpture and print making. But I’m also painting and drawing, doing mixed media assemblage, installation, performance, photography and some video too…and I do digital design, you know, for my day job.”
Q: “Oh…”
Depending on the type of work that an artist creates, this all too common conversation may be one of the more awkward non-starters. The lines between creative disciplines are often blurred. In part because a depth of knowledge in a medium coupled with a broad access to information online has enabled a greater ease and willingness for cross-disciplinary experimentation. The questions above may be motivated by a desire to classify and comprehend; or they may be market driven, makers who fit in a defined box are easier to explain; but what if you work in multiple media? How do you answer then? Working across disciplines might lead to a suspicion that the artist is a “jack of all trades…” and the work is watered down; all ideas and no substance. Cultural assumptions and perceptions aside, each of the artists in this exhibition fluidly transgresses the artificial boundaries of discipline and media with surprisingly adept results of form, concept and craft. Drawing experienced makers from a broad spectrum of fields, encouraging them to investigate and produce interdisciplinary works that combine art, performance and design tactics that result in new forms of multi-sensory research and creative production.
This exhibition sets out to examine the idea that the condition of the interdisciplinary imagination has the potential to create new forms and visual experiences. Although from fundamentally different disciplines, the artists, musicians and designers in this exhibition use curiosity, humor and vernacular forms to exploit the familiarity of a medium and methodology while challenging their associated traditions.
A sculptor who dresses up as “big foot” and paints pictures of unicorns; a trombonist composing music out of found sounds and technologies; a potter designing dystopian office furniture; a woodworker creating a hand made “3-D” printed portrait; an urban designer exploring landscape and nature through film; an architect exploring sculpture and memory; an artist exploring the emotional quality of sound; a fashion designer knitting a city-block-long scarf of sequential images that are then animated into a film… each person in this exhibition transgress the boundaries of their craft, reinventing methods as a means to an end.
Westernized, Watered-down Zen Philosophies features nine artists who have found ways to express themselves across multiple media and techniques. For some, it means making things as a designer or musician that transform into sculpture or performance, for others it means the reinvention and misinterpretation of tools, techniques and traditions resulting in surprising outcomes. Some use more ephemeral material such as found and recorded sounds that can be looped mixed played and discarded at the conclusion of an exhibition. Others work out side of their comfort zones from potter as furniture designer or fashion designer as filmmaker. What they all have in common is a willingness to take risks with media and craft and figuring out a way to do it, in spite of the practical difficulties they encounter. The transgression of craft gives rise to surprise, humor and discovery.
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