January 16, 2012
Vivid Imagination
Limerick City Gallery of Art
Four of my photographs that were acquired by the Limerick City Gallery of Art's permanent collection will be on view in the exhibition Vivid Imagination. Please see the description below:
Limerick City Gallery of Art invites you to the Grand Re-Opening of the newly extended Carnegie Building. Join us in celebrating our return home!
Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan TD, will officially Re-Open LCGA on Monday 16th January 2012 at 5pm.
This celebration notably marks the 75th Anniversary of the inauguration of Limerick Municipal Art Gallery Committee in early 1937 and the subsequent initiation of what is now Limerick City Gallery of Art’s prestigious Collection. This major 1.7 million extension and renovation, funded by the Department of Arts Sports and Tourism through the Access II scheme (70%) and Limerick City Council (30%), has reinstated Limerick City Gallery of Art in the Carnegie Building as an impressive contemporary art institution with state-of-the-art store facilities, purpose-built workshop spaces, a light filled café and a renewal of the 1948 West Gallery.
The two exhibitionsto coincide with the launch, A Vivid Imagination and Transitive Relationships, were devised to embrace the historic and the contemporary; celebrating the important Collection held by LCGA, and also the best of national and local contemporary art practice. An important historical work by internationally renowned, Roscommon born artist Brian O’Doherty (previously Patrick Ireland) has been purchased by Limerick City Gallery of Art under the Percent for Art Scheme. The new acquisition ‘The Siege of Limerick’, a sculpture dating from 1970, will be on prominent display as part of A Vivid Imagination until March.
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A Vivid Imagination: Selected works from the Collection
A Vivid Imagination invited people who have been closely associated with LCGA to select pieces from the Collection which they particularly engage with. The title references Sean Keating’s speech when awarded Freedom of the City on the launch of the West Gallery extension in March 1948. Keating praised Limerick Corporation for it’s foresight to inaugurate a municipal gallery and expressed his impression of Limerick as ‘a city of dignity and manners’, whose ‘people had a vivid imagination and only needed a vivid vocabulary to be entirely distinctive’.1 This exhibition responds to Keating’s words, inviting the people of Limerick to delve into both imagination and vocabulary in describing how the LCGA Collection engages them.
Marking this occasion the original exhibition presented at the opening of the East Gallery in 1948 will be recreated, showcasing 50 of the most important pieces to have been acquired prior to 1948. The newest acquisition, a sculpture titled ‘The Siege of Limerick’ by eminent Irish artist Brian O’Doherty will be exhibited for the first time in its new home at Limerick City Gallery of Art.
Limerick City Gallery of Art
Four of my photographs that were acquired by the Limerick City Gallery of Art's permanent collection will be on view in the exhibition Vivid Imagination. Please see the description below:
Limerick City Gallery of Art invites you to the Grand Re-Opening of the newly extended Carnegie Building. Join us in celebrating our return home!
Minister for Arts, Heritage and Gaeltacht Jimmy Deenihan TD, will officially Re-Open LCGA on Monday 16th January 2012 at 5pm.
This celebration notably marks the 75th Anniversary of the inauguration of Limerick Municipal Art Gallery Committee in early 1937 and the subsequent initiation of what is now Limerick City Gallery of Art’s prestigious Collection. This major 1.7 million extension and renovation, funded by the Department of Arts Sports and Tourism through the Access II scheme (70%) and Limerick City Council (30%), has reinstated Limerick City Gallery of Art in the Carnegie Building as an impressive contemporary art institution with state-of-the-art store facilities, purpose-built workshop spaces, a light filled café and a renewal of the 1948 West Gallery.
The two exhibitionsto coincide with the launch, A Vivid Imagination and Transitive Relationships, were devised to embrace the historic and the contemporary; celebrating the important Collection held by LCGA, and also the best of national and local contemporary art practice. An important historical work by internationally renowned, Roscommon born artist Brian O’Doherty (previously Patrick Ireland) has been purchased by Limerick City Gallery of Art under the Percent for Art Scheme. The new acquisition ‘The Siege of Limerick’, a sculpture dating from 1970, will be on prominent display as part of A Vivid Imagination until March.
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A Vivid Imagination: Selected works from the Collection
A Vivid Imagination invited people who have been closely associated with LCGA to select pieces from the Collection which they particularly engage with. The title references Sean Keating’s speech when awarded Freedom of the City on the launch of the West Gallery extension in March 1948. Keating praised Limerick Corporation for it’s foresight to inaugurate a municipal gallery and expressed his impression of Limerick as ‘a city of dignity and manners’, whose ‘people had a vivid imagination and only needed a vivid vocabulary to be entirely distinctive’.1 This exhibition responds to Keating’s words, inviting the people of Limerick to delve into both imagination and vocabulary in describing how the LCGA Collection engages them.
Marking this occasion the original exhibition presented at the opening of the East Gallery in 1948 will be recreated, showcasing 50 of the most important pieces to have been acquired prior to 1948. The newest acquisition, a sculpture titled ‘The Siege of Limerick’ by eminent Irish artist Brian O’Doherty will be exhibited for the first time in its new home at Limerick City Gallery of Art.
January 5 - February 2, 2012
DANA GENTILE
UNEARTHED
OPENING RECEPTION: January 5, 2012, 6-9pm
Global reconstruction in the wake of climate change, land use and war have incited a new urgency regarding the well-being of the planet. In Unearthed, Dana Gentile introduces a smart and witty perspective to the often heavy dialogue concerning our impact on the environment and its resources. Reclaiming once discarded materials such as vintage newspaper, magazine pages, encyclopedia imagery, and household objects, Gentile's installation and collage works are singular reflections informed by familiar medium and environmental issues that affect us all.
Galerie Protégé
197 Ninth Ave
New York, NY 10011
Phone: 212-807-8726
Gallery Hours: Monday-Thursday 10-7:30, Friday- Saturday 10-6, Sunday 11-5
UNEARTHED
OPENING RECEPTION: January 5, 2012, 6-9pm
Global reconstruction in the wake of climate change, land use and war have incited a new urgency regarding the well-being of the planet. In Unearthed, Dana Gentile introduces a smart and witty perspective to the often heavy dialogue concerning our impact on the environment and its resources. Reclaiming once discarded materials such as vintage newspaper, magazine pages, encyclopedia imagery, and household objects, Gentile's installation and collage works are singular reflections informed by familiar medium and environmental issues that affect us all.
Galerie Protégé
197 Ninth Ave
New York, NY 10011
Phone: 212-807-8726
Gallery Hours: Monday-Thursday 10-7:30, Friday- Saturday 10-6, Sunday 11-5
July 30-31, 2011, 11am-7pm
NADA Hudson
Basilica, 110 South Front Street, Hudson, NY
Open and free to the public
The New Art Dealers Alliance and Basilica Hudson are pleased to announce NADA Hudson, a large scale exhibition featuring over 30 projects presented by NADA members and affiliates. NADA Hudson is not an art fair, but rather a site-specific project for the New Art Dealers Alliance, which will build upon the character of a historic venue in showcasing contemporary sculpture, installation and performance. The Basilica Hudson, built in 1884 as a foundry and forge for the manufacture of steel railway wheels, is the last great 19th century building on the Hudson waterfront. NADA is grateful for the team at Basilica Hudson who offer a home for the artistic and cultural community at large. NADA Hudson will occupy nearly 8,000 square feet of indoor space, a theatre space and well over 10,000 square feet of outdoor space.
Humble Arts Foundation will exhibit a new interactive sculpture, Induced Seismicity, by Dana Gentile.
Basilica, 110 South Front Street, Hudson, NY
Open and free to the public
The New Art Dealers Alliance and Basilica Hudson are pleased to announce NADA Hudson, a large scale exhibition featuring over 30 projects presented by NADA members and affiliates. NADA Hudson is not an art fair, but rather a site-specific project for the New Art Dealers Alliance, which will build upon the character of a historic venue in showcasing contemporary sculpture, installation and performance. The Basilica Hudson, built in 1884 as a foundry and forge for the manufacture of steel railway wheels, is the last great 19th century building on the Hudson waterfront. NADA is grateful for the team at Basilica Hudson who offer a home for the artistic and cultural community at large. NADA Hudson will occupy nearly 8,000 square feet of indoor space, a theatre space and well over 10,000 square feet of outdoor space.
Humble Arts Foundation will exhibit a new interactive sculpture, Induced Seismicity, by Dana Gentile.
June 9, 2011
Hammer and Feather – Experiments in Space
Tim Acheson / David Beattie / Karl Burke / Cecilia Dannell / Angela Fulcher / Dana Gentile / Ann Maria Healy / Clare Lymer / Laura McMorrow / Victoria McCormack
Opening: Thursday 9 June 2011, 6-8pm
Exhibitions dates: 10 June – 7 July 2011
Forty years ago this summer, Commmander David Scott conducted an experiment on the moon. On the final walk of the Apollo 15 mission, he performed a live demonstration dropping a hammer and a feather in the vacuum of the lunar atmosphere. With no air resistance, both hammer and feather hit the surface at the same time proving all objects fall at the same rate, just as Galileo had proposed hundreds of years earlier.1 Galileo’s significant contributions to the fields of mathematics, physics and astronomy are widely acknowledged, unlike the philosophical prose, artistic training and aesthetic observations that informed his experiments and hypotheses. His strategies often led to inconclusive results and failed attempts, but despite being limited by the technologies of the time, his creative process would influence and inform multiple disciplines for centuries. The legacy of his controversial explorations changed our world view.
In her recent article, In Free Fall – A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective,2 Hito Steyerl writes: “Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground.” And if everything falls at the same rate, would we even realise? Anti-foundational philosophy suggests we are in a period of metaphysical ‘groundlessness’ – a time for re-evaluation or re-definition is required during which we must re-orientate our limitations to new horizons. Perhaps we should not be looking for stable ground but should remain floating observers in perfect stasis. Or not. “{F}alling does not only mean falling apart, it can also mean a new certainty falling into place.” [3]
Hammer and Feather features the work of 10 artists whose engagement with materials and space continues to challenge and resist the physical and canonical frontiers of art practice. A remote-control plinth; mapping light; abandoned festival tents; tectonic sculptures; hovering objects. In the context of the new Niland Gallery, the exhibition invites artists and visitors to imagine the possibilities and potential of this space - once empty in the vacuum of the economic downturn and now a site for discussion, discovery and, of course, experimentation.
Hammer and Feather – Experiments in Space is curated by Mary Conlon, Shinnors Scholar. The Niland Gallery is located on Merchants Road, Galway. Opening hours are Friday and Saturday 12-5pm or by appointment.
[1] Joe Allen, NASA SP-289, Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report, Summary of Scientific Results, p. 2-11
[2] Eflux Journal, Issue 25, May 2011
[3] Ibid, Issue 25, May 2011
Tim Acheson / David Beattie / Karl Burke / Cecilia Dannell / Angela Fulcher / Dana Gentile / Ann Maria Healy / Clare Lymer / Laura McMorrow / Victoria McCormack
Opening: Thursday 9 June 2011, 6-8pm
Exhibitions dates: 10 June – 7 July 2011
Forty years ago this summer, Commmander David Scott conducted an experiment on the moon. On the final walk of the Apollo 15 mission, he performed a live demonstration dropping a hammer and a feather in the vacuum of the lunar atmosphere. With no air resistance, both hammer and feather hit the surface at the same time proving all objects fall at the same rate, just as Galileo had proposed hundreds of years earlier.1 Galileo’s significant contributions to the fields of mathematics, physics and astronomy are widely acknowledged, unlike the philosophical prose, artistic training and aesthetic observations that informed his experiments and hypotheses. His strategies often led to inconclusive results and failed attempts, but despite being limited by the technologies of the time, his creative process would influence and inform multiple disciplines for centuries. The legacy of his controversial explorations changed our world view.
In her recent article, In Free Fall – A Thought Experiment on Vertical Perspective,2 Hito Steyerl writes: “Imagine you are falling. But there is no ground.” And if everything falls at the same rate, would we even realise? Anti-foundational philosophy suggests we are in a period of metaphysical ‘groundlessness’ – a time for re-evaluation or re-definition is required during which we must re-orientate our limitations to new horizons. Perhaps we should not be looking for stable ground but should remain floating observers in perfect stasis. Or not. “{F}alling does not only mean falling apart, it can also mean a new certainty falling into place.” [3]
Hammer and Feather features the work of 10 artists whose engagement with materials and space continues to challenge and resist the physical and canonical frontiers of art practice. A remote-control plinth; mapping light; abandoned festival tents; tectonic sculptures; hovering objects. In the context of the new Niland Gallery, the exhibition invites artists and visitors to imagine the possibilities and potential of this space - once empty in the vacuum of the economic downturn and now a site for discussion, discovery and, of course, experimentation.
Hammer and Feather – Experiments in Space is curated by Mary Conlon, Shinnors Scholar. The Niland Gallery is located on Merchants Road, Galway. Opening hours are Friday and Saturday 12-5pm or by appointment.
[1] Joe Allen, NASA SP-289, Apollo 15 Preliminary Science Report, Summary of Scientific Results, p. 2-11
[2] Eflux Journal, Issue 25, May 2011
[3] Ibid, Issue 25, May 2011
February 3, 2011
Trompe Le Monde
Juan Fontanive/ Dana Gentile/ Helen Horgan/ James Merrigan/ Michael Murphy
Opening: Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 7pm
Occupy Space, Thomas Street, Limerick
Limerick City Gallery of Art cordially invites you to the opening reception of “Trompe Le Monde” on Thursday 3 February 2011, 7pm at Occupy Space, Thomas Street, Limerick. The exhibition features work by Juan Fontanive, Dana Gentile, Helen Horgan, James Merrigan and Michael Murphy. This is the third installment of the Six Memos project, curated by Shinnors Scholar, Mary Conlon. LCGA’s Acting Director/Curator, Marian Lovett, will open the exhibition.
“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every conceivable way.” Italo Calvino, Multiplicity, Six Memos of the Next Millennium (1993)
In 1985, Italian writer, Italo Calvino devised a series of lectures for the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry, through which he sought an overall ‘definition’ of his practice. Reviewing the history of literature, he identified writers and works exemplifying a set of values from the past to be upheld in the future: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity and Consistency. The resulting publication entitled Six Memos for the Next Millennium is the core text for exegesis in the curatorial project Six Memos. Expanding on the literary specificity of the lectures, Six Memos seeks through empirical and theoretical research to define a model of practice based on values, flexible within shifting intellectual and cultural contexts.
For his penultimate lecture on Multiplicity, Calvino creates a complex structure, moving fluently through the works of philosophers, fiction writers, theorists, researchers, commentators and their diverse literary modes and techniques. An authentic image of the world, he proposes, is not stylistically homogenous but should incorporate the radiating web of connections between people, objects and events, “a style capable of grasping and expressing the epistemological multiplicity of the world” (Italo Calvino, The Challenge to the Labyrinth). To emphasise his point, he exploits the semantic potential of the lecture’s title considering the nuances of mathematical, scientific, legal and philosophical usage; he selects writers who become tangled in the infinite multiplications of time and space, defeated by unrealizable ambitions; he chooses writers who construct entire worlds and parallel lives in the space of a few short pages, as well as those who incorporate encyclopedic knowledge or epic intention in their work.
“Trompe Le Monde” is a polyphonic response to Calvino’s Multiplicity lecture featuring five artists with distinct artistic practices: Juan Fontanive, Dana Gentile, Helen Horgan, James Merrigan and Michael Murphy. Their re-evaluation of the lecture from the historical vantage point of this millennium is the starting point for the exhibition. Each artist interprets the lecture differently and while they share recurring motifs, the works reveal the lecture to be more than a formula for aesthetics. Connections are made philosophically and conceptually, offering the exhibition as a method of knowledge in itself. Just one manifestation of a myriad of potential outcomes, “Trompe Le Monde” unspools Ariadne’s thread through the labyrinthine complexities of our time – through the artists’ aspirations to weave a vision of the world. “Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth” (Mikhail Bathkin, Dialogic Imagination). In the exhibition, stylistic variety and analytical consistency compose the counterpoint to Calvino’s lecture on the combinatorics of contemporary experience.
An information point with further details about the artists, the individual works and Calvino’s lecture will be available from Occupy Space. A series of artists’ talks and events will be scheduled throughout the course of the exhibition.
Juan Fontanive studied English and Textual Studies at Syracuse University, New York and Animation at The Royal College of Art, London. He has presented two solo exhibitions Paper Films (2006) and Tin Tan (2008) at Riflemaker Gallery, London and group exhibitions include For the Sake of the Image (2010), Jerwood Gallery, London; Obsession: contemporary art from the Lodeveans Collection (2009), Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds; Indica (2008), Nyehaus Gallery, New York and Ingenuity (2007), The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. He won the Louise Wetherbee Phelps Award for Writing (1999) and the Desmond Preston Prize for Drawing (2004). He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Dana Gentile splits her time between Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley, NY. She graduated with a BFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2003. Her work has been exhibited at Capricious Space, Pocket Utopia, +Kris Graves Projects and Humble Arts Foundation. She was interviewed for the Italian Publication PIG Magazine and has been invited to participate in the curated publications Ruby Mag, Versal, and Color & Color. In 2010, Dana Gentile was awarded the Carole Eisner Award for Sculpture for her installation Plate Tectonics.
Helen Horgan studied at Letterkenny RTC (Design Graphics) and IADT where she received a BA in Visual Arts Practice and the Award for Academic Excellence in 2009. Her work has been shown widely in Ireland and most recently in No Soul For Sale at Tate Modern in London where she exhibited work alongside Thisisnotashop and The Writing Workshop. Horgan is currently enrolled in a Masters in Contemporary European Philosophy at University College Dublin researching form and meaning in the work of Derrida and Wittgenstein. She is a member of The Writing Workshop and is co-founder of The Legs Foundation for the Translation of Things (LFTT) with writer and artist Danyel M. Ferrari (NY).
James Merrigan is a mixed-media and video installation artist based in Dublin. He was awarded the Irish Residential Studio Award at Red Stables for 2011. He received a BA in Fine Art at IADT (2004), and an MFA at NCAD (2008); and was awarded the NCAD Graduate Award (2008). He has exhibited throughout Ireland and is a published writer on art. Most recently selected by the Director of the RHA, Patrick T. Murphy, for a solo show at Roscommon Arts Centre, March 2011. Current projects include the creation of an online art criticism journal called +BILLION-. In 2012 he will have a solo show at the LAB, Dublin.
Michael Murphy received a BA in Fine Art from IADT in 2006 and a MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2008. He has exhibited widely in Ireland and abroad most notably: and the panopticon, as well (2010), curated by Jason Wait for the 4th Biennial of Young Artists in Bucharest; Fairyland (2010) at FIVE YEARS Gallery, London; Magic Carpet (2009) at The Crypt Gallery, London; Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, The Bear, London; Closer to Paradise (2008) at 126 Gallery, Galway and Open Systems (2007) at Green on Red Gallery, Dublin. He lives and works in London.
“Trompe Le Monde” is part of the Six Memos project curated by Shinnors Scholar, Mary Conlon, under the auspices of the Limerick City Gallery of Art Off-site Programme and kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Visual Project Award 2010.
Occupy Space is open Wednesday - Saturday 1-5pm
Juan Fontanive/ Dana Gentile/ Helen Horgan/ James Merrigan/ Michael Murphy
Opening: Thursday, February 3, 2011 at 7pm
Occupy Space, Thomas Street, Limerick
Limerick City Gallery of Art cordially invites you to the opening reception of “Trompe Le Monde” on Thursday 3 February 2011, 7pm at Occupy Space, Thomas Street, Limerick. The exhibition features work by Juan Fontanive, Dana Gentile, Helen Horgan, James Merrigan and Michael Murphy. This is the third installment of the Six Memos project, curated by Shinnors Scholar, Mary Conlon. LCGA’s Acting Director/Curator, Marian Lovett, will open the exhibition.
“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined? Each life is an encyclopedia, a library, an inventory of objects, a series of styles, and everything can be constantly shuffled and reordered in every conceivable way.” Italo Calvino, Multiplicity, Six Memos of the Next Millennium (1993)
In 1985, Italian writer, Italo Calvino devised a series of lectures for the Charles Eliot Norton Professorship of Poetry, through which he sought an overall ‘definition’ of his practice. Reviewing the history of literature, he identified writers and works exemplifying a set of values from the past to be upheld in the future: Lightness, Quickness, Exactitude, Visibility, Multiplicity and Consistency. The resulting publication entitled Six Memos for the Next Millennium is the core text for exegesis in the curatorial project Six Memos. Expanding on the literary specificity of the lectures, Six Memos seeks through empirical and theoretical research to define a model of practice based on values, flexible within shifting intellectual and cultural contexts.
For his penultimate lecture on Multiplicity, Calvino creates a complex structure, moving fluently through the works of philosophers, fiction writers, theorists, researchers, commentators and their diverse literary modes and techniques. An authentic image of the world, he proposes, is not stylistically homogenous but should incorporate the radiating web of connections between people, objects and events, “a style capable of grasping and expressing the epistemological multiplicity of the world” (Italo Calvino, The Challenge to the Labyrinth). To emphasise his point, he exploits the semantic potential of the lecture’s title considering the nuances of mathematical, scientific, legal and philosophical usage; he selects writers who become tangled in the infinite multiplications of time and space, defeated by unrealizable ambitions; he chooses writers who construct entire worlds and parallel lives in the space of a few short pages, as well as those who incorporate encyclopedic knowledge or epic intention in their work.
“Trompe Le Monde” is a polyphonic response to Calvino’s Multiplicity lecture featuring five artists with distinct artistic practices: Juan Fontanive, Dana Gentile, Helen Horgan, James Merrigan and Michael Murphy. Their re-evaluation of the lecture from the historical vantage point of this millennium is the starting point for the exhibition. Each artist interprets the lecture differently and while they share recurring motifs, the works reveal the lecture to be more than a formula for aesthetics. Connections are made philosophically and conceptually, offering the exhibition as a method of knowledge in itself. Just one manifestation of a myriad of potential outcomes, “Trompe Le Monde” unspools Ariadne’s thread through the labyrinthine complexities of our time – through the artists’ aspirations to weave a vision of the world. “Truth is not born nor is it to be found inside the head of an individual person, it is born between people collectively searching for truth” (Mikhail Bathkin, Dialogic Imagination). In the exhibition, stylistic variety and analytical consistency compose the counterpoint to Calvino’s lecture on the combinatorics of contemporary experience.
An information point with further details about the artists, the individual works and Calvino’s lecture will be available from Occupy Space. A series of artists’ talks and events will be scheduled throughout the course of the exhibition.
Juan Fontanive studied English and Textual Studies at Syracuse University, New York and Animation at The Royal College of Art, London. He has presented two solo exhibitions Paper Films (2006) and Tin Tan (2008) at Riflemaker Gallery, London and group exhibitions include For the Sake of the Image (2010), Jerwood Gallery, London; Obsession: contemporary art from the Lodeveans Collection (2009), Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds; Indica (2008), Nyehaus Gallery, New York and Ingenuity (2007), The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon. He won the Louise Wetherbee Phelps Award for Writing (1999) and the Desmond Preston Prize for Drawing (2004). He lives and works in Brooklyn.
Dana Gentile splits her time between Brooklyn and the Hudson Valley, NY. She graduated with a BFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2003. Her work has been exhibited at Capricious Space, Pocket Utopia, +Kris Graves Projects and Humble Arts Foundation. She was interviewed for the Italian Publication PIG Magazine and has been invited to participate in the curated publications Ruby Mag, Versal, and Color & Color. In 2010, Dana Gentile was awarded the Carole Eisner Award for Sculpture for her installation Plate Tectonics.
Helen Horgan studied at Letterkenny RTC (Design Graphics) and IADT where she received a BA in Visual Arts Practice and the Award for Academic Excellence in 2009. Her work has been shown widely in Ireland and most recently in No Soul For Sale at Tate Modern in London where she exhibited work alongside Thisisnotashop and The Writing Workshop. Horgan is currently enrolled in a Masters in Contemporary European Philosophy at University College Dublin researching form and meaning in the work of Derrida and Wittgenstein. She is a member of The Writing Workshop and is co-founder of The Legs Foundation for the Translation of Things (LFTT) with writer and artist Danyel M. Ferrari (NY).
James Merrigan is a mixed-media and video installation artist based in Dublin. He was awarded the Irish Residential Studio Award at Red Stables for 2011. He received a BA in Fine Art at IADT (2004), and an MFA at NCAD (2008); and was awarded the NCAD Graduate Award (2008). He has exhibited throughout Ireland and is a published writer on art. Most recently selected by the Director of the RHA, Patrick T. Murphy, for a solo show at Roscommon Arts Centre, March 2011. Current projects include the creation of an online art criticism journal called +BILLION-. In 2012 he will have a solo show at the LAB, Dublin.
Michael Murphy received a BA in Fine Art from IADT in 2006 and a MA in Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art in 2008. He has exhibited widely in Ireland and abroad most notably: and the panopticon, as well (2010), curated by Jason Wait for the 4th Biennial of Young Artists in Bucharest; Fairyland (2010) at FIVE YEARS Gallery, London; Magic Carpet (2009) at The Crypt Gallery, London; Learned Pigs and Fireproof Women, The Bear, London; Closer to Paradise (2008) at 126 Gallery, Galway and Open Systems (2007) at Green on Red Gallery, Dublin. He lives and works in London.
“Trompe Le Monde” is part of the Six Memos project curated by Shinnors Scholar, Mary Conlon, under the auspices of the Limerick City Gallery of Art Off-site Programme and kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland Visual Project Award 2010.
Occupy Space is open Wednesday - Saturday 1-5pm
December 9, 2010
Color & Color #2
I am excited to announce that I have two collages in the publication Color & Color #2. Please consider buying a copy of the book online. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1702375
This issue is loosely based on a Ponzi Scheme. Each artist from the first two issues of C&C was given five points each to invite whom they saw fit for this issue: 3 points = local Bay area artists; 2 points = artists from the larger US; and 1 point = international artists. Allegiances be known and shown!!
Artists include:
Libby Black*, Bay Area/ Lindsey White*, Bay Area/ Francesca Nocera, Ontario/ Amber Ibarreche, NYC/ Caitlin Teal Price, NYC/ Kathleen Hudspeth, Miami/ Adler Guerrier, Miami/ Kyle Beal, Montreal/ Gabriel Johnson, Bay Area/ Kelly Sherman, Boston/ Justin Limoges, Bay Area/ Kristina Paabus, Estonia/ Sharon Kivland, London/France/ Zach Fabri, NYC/ Susana Gaudencio, Lisbon/ Jessica Mein, NYC/ Selena Kimball, NYC/ Suzanne van Rossenberg, Netherlands/ Jay Anderson, NYC/ Dana Gentile, NYC/ Nathan Vincent, Bay Area/ Dru Donovan, Bay Area/ Noah Wilson, Bay Area/ Justin Waldstein, NYC/ Christina Empedocles, Bay Area/ Katy Smail, NYC/ Aiyanna Udesen, Bay Area/ Ester Partegas, NYC/ Jennifer Lee, NYC/ Mike Cloud, NY/ Rose Borthwick, England/ Jesjit Gill, Toronto/ Jessalyn Aaland, Bay Area/ Meghan Gordon, Provincetown/ Katja Mater, Netherlands/ Gabriela Salazar, NYC/ Toban Nichols, LA/ Nightmare City, Bay Area
I am excited to announce that I have two collages in the publication Color & Color #2. Please consider buying a copy of the book online. http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/1702375
This issue is loosely based on a Ponzi Scheme. Each artist from the first two issues of C&C was given five points each to invite whom they saw fit for this issue: 3 points = local Bay area artists; 2 points = artists from the larger US; and 1 point = international artists. Allegiances be known and shown!!
Artists include:
Libby Black*, Bay Area/ Lindsey White*, Bay Area/ Francesca Nocera, Ontario/ Amber Ibarreche, NYC/ Caitlin Teal Price, NYC/ Kathleen Hudspeth, Miami/ Adler Guerrier, Miami/ Kyle Beal, Montreal/ Gabriel Johnson, Bay Area/ Kelly Sherman, Boston/ Justin Limoges, Bay Area/ Kristina Paabus, Estonia/ Sharon Kivland, London/France/ Zach Fabri, NYC/ Susana Gaudencio, Lisbon/ Jessica Mein, NYC/ Selena Kimball, NYC/ Suzanne van Rossenberg, Netherlands/ Jay Anderson, NYC/ Dana Gentile, NYC/ Nathan Vincent, Bay Area/ Dru Donovan, Bay Area/ Noah Wilson, Bay Area/ Justin Waldstein, NYC/ Christina Empedocles, Bay Area/ Katy Smail, NYC/ Aiyanna Udesen, Bay Area/ Ester Partegas, NYC/ Jennifer Lee, NYC/ Mike Cloud, NY/ Rose Borthwick, England/ Jesjit Gill, Toronto/ Jessalyn Aaland, Bay Area/ Meghan Gordon, Provincetown/ Katja Mater, Netherlands/ Gabriela Salazar, NYC/ Toban Nichols, LA/ Nightmare City, Bay Area
November 19, 2010
Alternative Histories
September 24 - November 24, 2010
Opens November 19 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
I will be putting a new piece in the Pocket Utopia box. This piece will stay in the box for viewers to enjoy. Come check out the show!
Alternative Histories is a history of New York City alternative art spaces and projects since the 1960s. Through audio interviews with founders and key staff, a reading room of magazines and publications, documentation, ephemera and narrative descriptions, the exhibition will tell the story of pioneering spaces – like P.S.1, Artists Space, Fashion Moda, Taller Boricua, ABC No Rio, The Kitchen, Franklin Furnace, Exit Art, 112 Greene Street, White Columns, Creative Time, Electronic Arts Intermix, Anthology Film Archives, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Just Above Midtown, and many more – as well as document a new generation of alternative projects such as Live With Animals, Fake Estate, Apartment Show, Pocket Utopia, Cleopatra’s, English Kills Art Gallery, Triple Candie, Esopus Space, and others.
September 24 - November 24, 2010
Opens November 19 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
I will be putting a new piece in the Pocket Utopia box. This piece will stay in the box for viewers to enjoy. Come check out the show!
Alternative Histories is a history of New York City alternative art spaces and projects since the 1960s. Through audio interviews with founders and key staff, a reading room of magazines and publications, documentation, ephemera and narrative descriptions, the exhibition will tell the story of pioneering spaces – like P.S.1, Artists Space, Fashion Moda, Taller Boricua, ABC No Rio, The Kitchen, Franklin Furnace, Exit Art, 112 Greene Street, White Columns, Creative Time, Electronic Arts Intermix, Anthology Film Archives, Storefront for Art and Architecture, Just Above Midtown, and many more – as well as document a new generation of alternative projects such as Live With Animals, Fake Estate, Apartment Show, Pocket Utopia, Cleopatra’s, English Kills Art Gallery, Triple Candie, Esopus Space, and others.
July 14, 2010
SATURDAY SUN
Aisling Hamrogue / Chris Domenick / Dana Gentile / Emily Klass/ Erin Jane Nelson / Jessica Williams / Lauren Maresca / Mara Baldwin/ Zack Genin / Alana Celii / Grant Willing / Jessica Olm/ Curated by Karen Codd
Exhibition Dates: July 14, 2010 through August 21, 2010
Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 14th from 6 – 8pm
Capricious Space
103 Broadway, Ground Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Capricious Space is pleased to announce Saturday Sun, a group exhibition of new photography and works on paper by twelve emerging artists. Opening July 14th, works are on view through August 21, 2010. A reception will take place on Wednesday, July 14th from 6 – 8pm.
Released in 1969, when British musician Nick Drake was about twenty-one years old, the song “Saturday Sun” (Five Leaves Left LP) speaks of a brief reprieve from melancholy – sunshine that appears without warning, disappears just as quickly as it came, and leaves behind memories indelible and recurring, however positively or negatively distorted from reality they may be. The artworks shown provide analogous visual instances of a warm reprieve from an ordinary trajectory of thinking or living – some real and some manufactured – all transporting nonetheless.
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Aisling Hamrogue / Chris Domenick / Dana Gentile / Emily Klass/ Erin Jane Nelson / Jessica Williams / Lauren Maresca / Mara Baldwin/ Zack Genin / Alana Celii / Grant Willing / Jessica Olm/ Curated by Karen Codd
Exhibition Dates: July 14, 2010 through August 21, 2010
Opening Reception: Wednesday, July 14th from 6 – 8pm
Capricious Space
103 Broadway, Ground Floor
Brooklyn, NY 11211
Capricious Space is pleased to announce Saturday Sun, a group exhibition of new photography and works on paper by twelve emerging artists. Opening July 14th, works are on view through August 21, 2010. A reception will take place on Wednesday, July 14th from 6 – 8pm.
Released in 1969, when British musician Nick Drake was about twenty-one years old, the song “Saturday Sun” (Five Leaves Left LP) speaks of a brief reprieve from melancholy – sunshine that appears without warning, disappears just as quickly as it came, and leaves behind memories indelible and recurring, however positively or negatively distorted from reality they may be. The artworks shown provide analogous visual instances of a warm reprieve from an ordinary trajectory of thinking or living – some real and some manufactured – all transporting nonetheless.
http://becapricious.com
