Sharon Louden

The David Winton Bell Gallery and Brown University’s Department of Visual Art present in TRANSIT: from OBJECT to SITE, from Saturday, Sept. 9, through Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006, at Brown University.



Opening Reception, September 16th, 5:30 – 7:30 PM.



The collaborative exhibition features a series of installations displayed throughout List Art Center, transforming the modernist architecture of Philip Johnson’s 1971 building into a lively space of diverse multimedia and site-based projects.





Sharon Louden’s outdoor installation Faires is situated on the lawn facing the main entrance to the List Art Center. More than 200,000 feet of black tie-wire is arranged into an organic configuration that elegantly merges with its natural setting. Within theses piles of raw wire, thousands of small, flickering “lights” (reflective sheeting imbedded in the piles of wire) absorb and reflect the constantly changing light from its surrounding, creating a magical lighting field. Louden is a New York-based artist who works in numerous media, from drawing and painting to sculpture, installation and mostly recently video animation. Her work has been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries including the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Conn.; the Drawing Center in New York; Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh; Delaware Center for Contemporary Arts in Wilmington; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art in Kansas City, Mo.; and most recently the Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, N.Y.



The David Winton Bell Gallery, located on the first floor of List Art Center, 64 College St., Providence, Rhode Island, is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. For more information, call 401/ 863-2932.