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The exhibition 'Public Light and Space' is open for viewing until June 3rd, on the 24th story of the John Hancock Tower.
11 unique visions for public art projects, each developed by a different artist are presented, and it is my honour and privilege to be among them.
My piece, entitled Brief Moments, is a fully operational 1:50 scale model for a public sculpture that shoots clouds into the air. The clouds can be emitted in varying patterns to produce, however briefly before dissipating into the air, letters and messages in ground-level skywriting. Furthermore, the clouds serve as projection surfaces for a series of images of bodies and architecture, rendering both immaterial.
The exhibition is the result of an intensive 4-month investigation by a group of students led by Jaume Plensa, the internationally-acclaimed artist best known for Chicago's Crown Fountain.
This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of William and Stephanie Sick. The artists would also like to extend their appreciation to Paul Gray of the Richard Gray Gallery for hosting this exhibition, and of course to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Brad Hindson and I are incredibly proud to be a part of the Corcoran Gallery's upcoming exhibit Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change. The exhibit will feature a presentation of Studio F-Minus' 400 sqft installation A Dream of Pastures. From the exhibition website:
Best known for his groundbreaking studies of animal and human locomotion, 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge was also an innovative landscape artist and pioneer of documentary subjects. Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, the first retrospective exhibition to examine all aspects of Muybridge’s art, will be on view at the Corcoran Gallery of Art from April 10 through July 18, 2010.
Born in England in 1830, Muybridge spent much of his career in San Francisco and Philadelphia during a time of rapid industrial and technological growth. In the 1870s, he developed new ways to stop motion with his camera. Muybridge’s legendary sequential photographs of running horses helped spark a technological revolution that changed the way people saw the world. His projected animations inspired the early development of cinema and the enormous impact of his photographs can be measured throughout the course of modern art, from paintings and sculptures by Thomas Eakins, Edgar Degas, Marcel Duchamp, and Francis Bacon, to the 1999 blockbuster film The Matrix and the music video for U2’s hit song Lemon.
Structured in a series of thematic sections, Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change includes numerous vintage photographs, albums, stereographs, lantern slides, glass negatives and positives, camera equipment, patent models, Zoopraxiscope discs, proof prints, notes, books, and other ephemera. Over 300 objects created between 1858 and 1893 are brought together for the first time from numerous international collections. Muybridge’s only surviving Zoopraxiscope—an apparatus he designed in 1879 to project motion pictures—will also be on view.
Organized by Corcoran chief curator and head of research Philip Brookman, the exhibition will also travel to Tate Britain in London from September 8, 2010 through January 16, 2011, and to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from February 26 through June 7, 2011. A catalogue of the exhibition, with new essays by Brookman, Marta Braun, Andy Grundberg, Corey Keller, and Rebecca Solnit, will be published by Steidl.
Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change is organized by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. and made possible through the generous support of American Express and the Trellis Fund. Additional support was provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and Deane and Paul Shatz. The accompanying catalogue was made possible, in part, by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Furthermore: a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund.
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Studio F-Minus, in conjunction with Brookfield Place, are pleased to announce that Visions of the Amen: Meniscus will be on display in April as part of Brookfield Place's Earth Week initiative.
I will be giving a lecture/presentation at Dorkbot Chicago on Thursday, January 25, 2010.
Click here for more info.
All are welcome and admission is free.
Visions of the Amen opened at the Spoke Club on January 22nd. Thank you to everyone who made it out. You can see video documentation and read the press reaction on this site, here. The press response was great, with coverage from the National Post and shout outs from the Make Magazine Blog, and Rhizome, an arm of the New Museum.
For those of you who somehow managed to dodge any of the half-dozen or so going-away parties/exhibitions that dotted Toronto's social calendar in July and August, I am officially announcing my arival here in Chicago.
I will be here for the next two years, undertaking an MFA program in the Art and Technology department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
While any sign of appreciation I can show in this small space seems inadequate by orders of magnitude, I will nonetheless do my best to thank everyone who has perused these pages, seen the work in galleries, or added my pieces to their collection. Your support played a massive role in creating the opportunity which I'm about to confront here in Chicago.
While I myself may be here in Chicago, my work will remain available in Toronto through Engine Gallery, in Ottawa through Galerie St-Laurent + Hill, and in Atlanta through Alan Avery Art Company. I will continue to produce new work for these Galleries throughout the duration of my studies at the Art Institute. |
