Andrea Rosen Gallery Presents Josiah McElheny's DREAMLANDS: IMMERSIVE CINEMA AND ART, 1905-2016

Andrea Rosen Gallery is pleased to announce Josiah McElheny's inclusion in Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016 at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016 focuses on the ways in which artists have dismantled and reassembled the conventions of cinema - screen, projection, darkness - to create new experiences of the moving image. The exhibition will fill the Museum's 18,000-square-foot fifth-floor galleries, and will include a film series in the third-floor theater.

The exhibition's title refers to the science fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft's alternate fictional dimension, whose terrain of cities, forests, mountains, and an underworld can be visited only through dreams. Similarly, the spaces in Dreamlands will connect different historical moments of cinematic experimentation, creating a story that unfolds across a series of immersive spaces.

The exhibition will be the most technologically complex project mounted in the Whitney's new building to date, embracing a wide range of moving image techniques, from hand-painted film to the latest digital technologies. The works on view use color, touch, music, spectacle, light, and darkness to confound expectations, flattening space through animation and abstraction, or heightening the illusion of three dimensions.

Dreamlands spans more than a century of works by American artists and filmmakers, and also includes a small number of works of German cinema and art from the 1920s with a strong relationship to, and influence on, American art and film.

Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016 is organized by Chrissie Iles, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz Curator.