Ellen Curlee Gallery: Friday, 5 October 2007
Come celebrate with us this Frist Friday, October 5 from 6pm - 8pm with the opening of our new video in our next door video series: John Richey and our Best Art Gallery nod in the Riverfront Times!....and another chance to view our exhibition Cohesion: textiles + photography.
next door: Video Series:
John Richey
October 5 – October 20, 2007
Using a series of found handwritten notes and appropriated safety brochures, Richey’s video work, Untitled (play it safe) translates the bodies of banal information into a drawn animation that emphasizes the absurd and spectacular, creating paradoxical situations for fear and control. These universal concepts permeate every facet of our lives from the everyday to the life altering as they manifest themselves in a range of everyday objects and commonplace events as well as through the most outrageous and unexpected happenstances. Through the appropriation of these collections of text and found material, Richey blurs the line between the concepts of control vs. chaos, stability vs. volatility, and safety vs. danger so as to highlight the point where these dramatizations of fear and trust collide. Within the pages of the safety manuals, the promise of safety in a cartoon is realized through ritualistic training practice, our need to feel protected is a falsehood because some things are out of our control. Richey
explains his preoccupations: “How do we prepare for what happens in extreme cases of loss? We are constantly trying to stay safe while there are some things that we can never be ready for. Precautionary drills carry with them an empty promise of safety. Are all of the training exercises and advancements in the technologies of safety in vain? Or do we call them an attempt at comfort and stability?”
ALSO ON VIEW:
The exhibition explores the relationship between photography and textiles through the work of two artists: Luanne Rimel and Liz Rideal. Each artist deals with the disparate disciplines of photography and textiles, weaving very personal visual stories yet approaching their work with different intent and through very different processes.
The Ellen Curlee Gallery is located at 1308-A Washington Avenue in the Washington Avenue loft district. Hours are 11am to 4pm Tuesday-Saturday and 11am to 9pm on First Fridays, the first Friday of each month. Tel: (314) 241-1299.
next door: Video Series:
John Richey
October 5 – October 20, 2007
Using a series of found handwritten notes and appropriated safety brochures, Richey’s video work, Untitled (play it safe) translates the bodies of banal information into a drawn animation that emphasizes the absurd and spectacular, creating paradoxical situations for fear and control. These universal concepts permeate every facet of our lives from the everyday to the life altering as they manifest themselves in a range of everyday objects and commonplace events as well as through the most outrageous and unexpected happenstances. Through the appropriation of these collections of text and found material, Richey blurs the line between the concepts of control vs. chaos, stability vs. volatility, and safety vs. danger so as to highlight the point where these dramatizations of fear and trust collide. Within the pages of the safety manuals, the promise of safety in a cartoon is realized through ritualistic training practice, our need to feel protected is a falsehood because some things are out of our control. Richey
explains his preoccupations: “How do we prepare for what happens in extreme cases of loss? We are constantly trying to stay safe while there are some things that we can never be ready for. Precautionary drills carry with them an empty promise of safety. Are all of the training exercises and advancements in the technologies of safety in vain? Or do we call them an attempt at comfort and stability?”
ALSO ON VIEW:
The exhibition explores the relationship between photography and textiles through the work of two artists: Luanne Rimel and Liz Rideal. Each artist deals with the disparate disciplines of photography and textiles, weaving very personal visual stories yet approaching their work with different intent and through very different processes.
The Ellen Curlee Gallery is located at 1308-A Washington Avenue in the Washington Avenue loft district. Hours are 11am to 4pm Tuesday-Saturday and 11am to 9pm on First Fridays, the first Friday of each month. Tel: (314) 241-1299.
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