THERE GOES THE NEIGHBORHOOD
MOCA has their big summer opening this friday the 5th of june. 'there goes the neighborhood' is the title and artists were asked to express their art with their local communities represented in the work.
the 11 artists come from all over the globe including 'amy casey' whom is coming off the victory of 'the cleveland art prize' for emerging artist. i've spoke a quite deal of amy casey's work in the past so i'll spare you anymore lecturing.
just go see the show, it runs through august 16, 2009.
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There Goes the Neighborhood
On view June 5th, 2009 through August 16th, 2009
Curated by Megan Lykins Reich, Director of Education and Associate Curator
ON VIEW in the Marjorie Talalay and Peter B. Lewis, and Video Galleries
Willie Birch, Kristin Bly, Amy Casey, Cao Fei, Dionisio Gonzàlez, Leslie Grant and Nina Pessin-Whedbee, Matthew Kolodziej, Eva Struble, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Catherine Yass
There Goes the Neighborhood explores the evolution of communities here and abroad. The exhibition focuses on how architecture and landscape embody a neighborhood's past, present, and potential future. The work on view examines places amid growth or decline, sites that hover somewhere between construction, deterioration, and renewal. The artists reveal how physical sites symbolize the human experience of change, whether simple or complex, invited or forced. Linking actual and anticipated shifts in communities across the globe, There Goes the Neighborhood emphasizes the evolving structures and compositions of neighborhoods in the twenty-first century.
The exhibition features artists from different regions and cultures who are responding to shifts in communities around the world. Some focus on particular sites. Representing blighted neighborhoods in New Orleans, Cleveland, and Leipzig, the works of Willie Birch, Amy Casey, and Clemens von Wedemeyer uncover political issues embedded in the architecture of these places. Eva Struble and Dionsio Gonzàlez focus on marginalized Spanish, Brazilian, and Vietnamese communities and their complex relationships within their regions. Leslie Grant and Nina Pessin-Whedbee, with support from Carolyn Strauss of slowLAB and artistic contribution by Leah Beeferman, examine the Domino Sugar Factory and its evolving neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Other artists look beyond particular neighborhoods to explore overarching factors effecting change. Catherine Yass examines the Three Gorges Dam, which has radically displaced or destroyed hundreds of Chinese communities. Kristin Bly uses a common structure - the front porch - to consider critical economic and social issues affecting neighborhoods here and throughout the country. Matthew Kolodziej abstracts scenes of architectural construction and destruction to emphasize their allegorical value. Cao Fei expands the boundaries of community into the fluid environment of virtual reality.
As Cao Fei's work suggests, neighborhoods are not just constructed environments; they are performative spaces in which we build lives and memories. Yet, our experiences are tied to the physical architecture and landscape of our communities. Ranging in tone from alarm to ambivalence to hope about the evolution of these places, There Goes the Neighborhood emphasizes the cycle of change, in which deterioration is inevitably followed by renewal and revitalization. In doing so, the exhibition asks us to consider our relationship to, and influence upon, the present and future expressions of our neighborhoods.
Artist Websites:
Willie Birch: http://tinyurl.com/chcoeq
Kristin Bly: http://www.newsenseonline.com/kristin.htm
Amy Casey: http://www.amycaseypainting.com/
Cao Fei: http://www.lombard-freid.com/home.ht m
Dionisio Gonzàlez: http://tinyurl.com/c456sz
Leslie Grant: http://www.altproject.com/grant/portfolio.php
Nina Pessin-Whedbee: http://tinyurl.com/dfwkst (previous project)
Leah Beeferman: http://inkbox.org
Matthew Kolodziej: http://www.mattpaint.com/
Eva Struble: http://www.lombard-freid.com/home.htm
Clemens von Wedemeyer: http://tinyurl.com/dxaw4e
Catherine Yass: http://www.galerielelong.com/artists/
the 11 artists come from all over the globe including 'amy casey' whom is coming off the victory of 'the cleveland art prize' for emerging artist. i've spoke a quite deal of amy casey's work in the past so i'll spare you anymore lecturing.
just go see the show, it runs through august 16, 2009.
<-----MOCA----->
There Goes the Neighborhood
On view June 5th, 2009 through August 16th, 2009
Curated by Megan Lykins Reich, Director of Education and Associate Curator
ON VIEW in the Marjorie Talalay and Peter B. Lewis, and Video Galleries
Willie Birch, Kristin Bly, Amy Casey, Cao Fei, Dionisio Gonzàlez, Leslie Grant and Nina Pessin-Whedbee, Matthew Kolodziej, Eva Struble, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Catherine Yass
There Goes the Neighborhood explores the evolution of communities here and abroad. The exhibition focuses on how architecture and landscape embody a neighborhood's past, present, and potential future. The work on view examines places amid growth or decline, sites that hover somewhere between construction, deterioration, and renewal. The artists reveal how physical sites symbolize the human experience of change, whether simple or complex, invited or forced. Linking actual and anticipated shifts in communities across the globe, There Goes the Neighborhood emphasizes the evolving structures and compositions of neighborhoods in the twenty-first century.
The exhibition features artists from different regions and cultures who are responding to shifts in communities around the world. Some focus on particular sites. Representing blighted neighborhoods in New Orleans, Cleveland, and Leipzig, the works of Willie Birch, Amy Casey, and Clemens von Wedemeyer uncover political issues embedded in the architecture of these places. Eva Struble and Dionsio Gonzàlez focus on marginalized Spanish, Brazilian, and Vietnamese communities and their complex relationships within their regions. Leslie Grant and Nina Pessin-Whedbee, with support from Carolyn Strauss of slowLAB and artistic contribution by Leah Beeferman, examine the Domino Sugar Factory and its evolving neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
Other artists look beyond particular neighborhoods to explore overarching factors effecting change. Catherine Yass examines the Three Gorges Dam, which has radically displaced or destroyed hundreds of Chinese communities. Kristin Bly uses a common structure - the front porch - to consider critical economic and social issues affecting neighborhoods here and throughout the country. Matthew Kolodziej abstracts scenes of architectural construction and destruction to emphasize their allegorical value. Cao Fei expands the boundaries of community into the fluid environment of virtual reality.
As Cao Fei's work suggests, neighborhoods are not just constructed environments; they are performative spaces in which we build lives and memories. Yet, our experiences are tied to the physical architecture and landscape of our communities. Ranging in tone from alarm to ambivalence to hope about the evolution of these places, There Goes the Neighborhood emphasizes the cycle of change, in which deterioration is inevitably followed by renewal and revitalization. In doing so, the exhibition asks us to consider our relationship to, and influence upon, the present and future expressions of our neighborhoods.
Artist Websites:
Willie Birch: http://tinyurl.com/chcoeq
Kristin Bly: http://www.newsenseonline.com/kristin.htm
Amy Casey: http://www.amycaseypainting.com/
Cao Fei: http://www.lombard-freid.com/home.ht m
Dionisio Gonzàlez: http://tinyurl.com/c456sz
Leslie Grant: http://www.altproject.com/grant/portfolio.php
Nina Pessin-Whedbee: http://tinyurl.com/dfwkst (previous project)
Leah Beeferman: http://inkbox.org
Matthew Kolodziej: http://www.mattpaint.com/
Eva Struble: http://www.lombard-freid.com/home.htm
Clemens von Wedemeyer: http://tinyurl.com/dxaw4e
Catherine Yass: http://www.galerielelong.com/artists/
posted by lou m at 6/05/2009 11:58:00 AM
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