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July 17, 2007 - August 17, 2007
Daphne Fitzpatrick, Jansson Stegner, Jonah Groeneboer, Marc Swanson, Anne Hardy, Adam Cvijanovic
Bellwether
134 10th Ave Installation view |  Installation view |
Fitzpatrick makes observation, collection, and display the subject of her practice, conflating a hobo sensibility with the care and attention of commodity fetish. Fitzpatrick combines appropriated images, found objects, photographs, drawings, sculpture, and video, building complex narratives littered with banal joke shop humor, sexual puns, and perverse poetry. The crude and abject are handled with loving attention and offer the viewer an experience not unlike the best forms of slapstick physical comedy, where unlikely objects and ideas collide.
Jansson Stegner Upcoming exhibition: November 15-December 22, 2007 Tenderness and the visual trappings of our social indicators of power are combined in Jansson Stegner’s oil on linen paintings of police women. The artist veers away from the traditional portrait of a confident, authoritative woman as sexual object, looking instead to the power in a woman’s disinterested gaze. With languid bodies bent into sculptural forms and limbs portrayed with Mannerist exaggeration, Stegner depicts a physical and emotional awkwardness that draws the viewer into his subject’s psychological space. These lady beat-cops have been displaced from the urban environment and relocated into private, contemplative worlds that read as pastoral, monastic and removed.
Jonah Groeneboer Upcoming exhibition: January/February 2008 Drawing from mathematics and mysticism, Jonah Groeneboer’s installations involve deceptively few materials to convey thresholds between time and space, line and volume, presence and immateriality. Working with string, graphite, light and shadow, Groeneboer looks at thresholds rich with metaphorical implications that challenge oppositions that develop through binary thinking. Exploring the points where perception and illusion reveal their symbiosis, Groeneboer visualizes the conceptual path of the motion of volumes through space, capturing their boundaries through time, looking to the varying possibilities of conceptual and theoretical approaches to abstraction in sculpture.
Marc Swanson Upcoming exhibition: February/March 2008 Marc Swanson’s latest body of work continues to take on issues of sexual identity and community. Mysterious, almost occult looking, geometric symbol-based sculptures traverse the line between the literal and the abstract - the Act Up triangle meets the enneagram, a symbol representing universal cosmic laws. With this new austere language, Swanson allows his work to be even more opened up for interpretation.
In Swanson’s video "Anywhere, Anytime, Anyplace", made in collaboration with Neil Gust, the public restroom or park are destabilized public spaces in which private acts take place. Dizzying kaleidoscopic visuals and pulsating music capture the dangerous and exciting sensation of cruising. The resulting work combines the slick and seductive visual gestalt of advertising with the transgressive taboo of the sexual outlaw.
Anne Hardy Upcoming exhibition: May 2008 Anne Hardy’s photographs combine collections of found unwanted objects, fragments of narrative and provisional architectural forms in a sculptural process to realize a single image. Reflecting on contemporary cultural anxieties and desires, these compelling fictional spaces built in the studio as images are convincing and often uncannily familiar, although they seem to reside in a space just beyond possibility. Carrying the behavior of their fictional and unseen inhabitants in the items stored, ordered and discarded, the ingrained dust and dirt and the vestiges of parties and work that has ended, they encourage us to search for clues for the human deeds that could have led to the scenes of impending or past drama.
Adam Cvijanovic Upcoming exhibition: Summer 2008 Concerned with exposing the enduring hubris of American culture, Adam Cvijanovic’s movable murals, including “Love Poem,” “New City,” “Neon Graveyard,” “Fall of Babylon” and “Spring Break,” explore varying facets of the search for and physical manifestation of American power and success on a monumental scale. Forms in each of Cvijanovic’s works are drawn from the history of American landscape painting and its depiction of its grand, if oft age dilapidated splendor. Like a visionary architect, Cvijanovic’s next solo show will be a collection of small scale “studies” for possible future full scale murals.
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