October Museum & Public Art Highlights I Steven Siegel I John Grade @ Smithsonian Museum
CYNTHIA-REEVES launches their new season at 1315 MASS MoCA Way with BIOGRAPHY, the gallery's debut exhibition of American sculptor, Steven Siegel, since he joined the gallery in 2015, Saturday, October 10, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.. A concise show of conceptual installations, Siegel finds his muse through piles of discarded remnants. As an excavator, geologist, sociological commentator and documentarian, Siegel culls through the detritus of our daily lives - plastics, rubber, wires, casings and molded housings -- - items that speak of a culture unconcerned with the consequences of our ingenuity. For him, they become a portal to another order of inquiry, in which he discerns a future by reading the proverbial 'tea leaves' of waste. It is a geology-in-process that records who we are and how we live.
Twenty feet of his vanguard piece, BIOGRAPHY, are featured in this exhibition. In it's entirety, this monumental installation is comprised of ninety sections spanning, collectively, 156 linear feet in its final form. Executed over a five-year period, the piece is a testimonial of his life, our lives: minutiae of day-to-day existence in the 21st century, transformed into an ode to the inherent beauty culled from all manner of materials. Here, the richness and the luxury of the sculpture is undeniable: the vibrancy of palette dancing across this extreme span of tightly woven and interlaced elements, all surprising in their beauty and textural import. Presented on a scale that defies all reason, it is the tiny elements and minor events over the course of its 'deep time' that conspire to make the drama of the whole.JOHN GRADE WONDER: Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC November 13 - July 10, 2016
"The experience of 'wonder' is deeply intertwined with how we experience art, and why these nine artists create the works they do. They are each masters of constructing works that startle us, overwhelm us and invite us to marvel-to wonder-at their creation. These elements matter in the context of this museum, devoted to the skilled working of materials in extraordinary ways." -Nicholas R. Bell, The Fleur and Charles Bresler Senior Curator of American Craft and Decorative Art
ANITA GLESTA's WATERSHED Interview Anita Glesta, WATERSHED, video projection on the National Theatre, Totally Thames Festival, London, September 22 - 27
ANITA GLESTA WATERSHED: Totally Thames Festival, Royal National Theatre, London September 22 - 27
Exclusive Artist Interview with Totally Thames Anita Glesta: 'I would like this work to be a vehicle of communication - like a 'moving-image billboard' -- As part of this year's annual Totally Thames festival, which sees a series of arts and cultural events taking place on London's riverbanks, New York artist Anita Glesta has brought a mesmerizing projection of brightly colored, circling fish to the National Theatre's Lyttleton Flytower, visible from across the water, as well as from the popular South Bank and the theatre's river terrace below. The work has been in development since 2009, when Glesta was asked to make a piece in collaboration with Art_Port and the UN for the COP15 summit on climate change in Copenhagen. In 2013, a previous version of Watershed was projected on the wall of St Patrick's Basilica in Lower Manhattan during the New Museums Ideas City Festival. This version used carp as its dancers. For the London version, Glesta travelled to Colombia to film the Amazonian pirarucu fish, which is almost on the verge of extinction. She is interested, she says, in using fish for their multipurpose characteristics. (Studio International) WATERSHED is co-sponsored and courtesy of CYNTHIA-REEVES, New York
The artist talks about the motivation behind her brightly coloured projection of frenzied fish on to the National Theatre as part of the Totally Thames festival, September 22 - 27
Totally Thames Festival For more informationSarah Amos: Select Works, 2009 - 2015 @ CYNTHIA-REEVES, Walpole, NH
Sarah Amos, Untitled, (2009), monoprint SARAH AMOS SELECT WORKS: CYNTHIA-REEVES, 28 Main Street, Walpole, NH September 5 - November 14
"One key element of Amos' artistic approach is her penchant for mark making-she has spoken of her compulsive need to produce art as a means of comprehending the world around her. Printmaking offers a host of options for mark-making and layering that are germane to Amos' artistic concepts. She culls from an arsenal of techniques, but primarily exploits the linear and tonal passages she can create with carborundum etching and the multi-level built up and recessed surfaces and diverse textures of collagraphy. She will also use multiple passes through the press to attain the desired effect. Her attraction to printmaking lies less in its ability to make multiple editions of a completed image than in the specific aesthetic effects different methods can produce. Although she has made some painting studies on canvas, her strong preference for the textural variety and subtle overlays of imagery that she can achieve by combining printed elements with painted, drawn, stitched or other hand applications to produce unique works prevails." -- Sarah Amos: Complex Geometries, Shelley R. Langdale, Associate Curator of Prints and Drawings, Philadelphia Museum of Art, June 2015
CYNTHIA-REEVES represents an international roster of established artists who share a process-apparent sensibility in their art. We are committed to artwork that demonstrates an authentic voice, an innovative use of materials and an appreciation of the mark in diverse media: site-based installation, video, sculpture, painting and works on paper.
A sub-text to the gallery's program is artwork that celebrates the convergence of art and science, as well as our relationship to the natural world - a discourse essential to the examination of contemporary art and culture within the context of these broader challenges.
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