March 24, 2009
Dana Gentile will be giving a lecture on the progress of her work through photography, collage, and installation. The lecture is scheduled for Sunday, March 29, 2009, 3-5pm at
Kris Graves Projects
111 Front Street #224
Brooklyn, NY
Closing reception on April 2, 2009, 6-9pm.
Dana Gentile's collages are on view at Kris Graves Projects until April 5, 2009.
www.krisgravesprojects.com
Sergio A. Fernández
Global
&
Dana Gentile
Agriculture
March 5th to April 5th, 2009
The exhibition, entitled Global, will open Thursday, March 5th with a reception from 6:00-9:00pm
+Kris Graves Projects is proud to announce the first NYC solo exhibition of Peruvian photographer Sergio A. Fernández. Curated by Kris Graves.
Sergio A. Fernández's "Global" is the culmination of a ten-year project in which the artist examines corporate work environments and the failure of modernity. While searching for a common ground between cultures, he began photographing institutional spaces, which appear to have no identifiable function or geographic location. The glow of fluorescent lights and the poor acoustics of dry wall are present in institutional buildings across the world, turning them into spatial vacuums that defy traditional notions of purpose and placement. The images in this project explore the institutions, as they exist and without intervention, in order to document and extract beauty from the dismissed stages of public life. The first exhibition of "Global" took place late last year at FIFI Projects – Miami, Florida, from October 11 to November 25, 2008.
Sergio A. Fernández was born in 1973 in Lima, Peru. He studied at Massachusetts College of Art, where in 2000, he received his MFA. Sergio's photographs belong to the collections of Instituto de Artes Fotograficas (Peru), and Goldman Sachs (NY).
In the project space, +Kris Graves Projects is pleased to present Dana Gentile's newest series of collages entitled “Agriculture” running simultaneous with Fernández's photography. Dana's collages use humor to reconstruct and evaluate issues relating to modern agriculture practices. Dana will also be giving a lecture on how her photography informs her current collage work. The Artist Lecture is scheduled for March 29, 2009, 3-5pm
Dana Gentile is an emerging Brooklyn-based artist. She graduated with a BFA from SUNY Purchase College in 2003. Her work has been exhibited in New York at The Museum at FIT, Slideluck Potshow, and Pocket Utopia. She was interviewed in the Italian Publication PIG (People In The Groove) Magazine in October 2006. In addition, her work is included in a curated limited edition book titled Ruby Mag that was published in Argentina. She was invited to participate in the 2007 project titled Fjord, which brings together emerging and up and coming photographic talent of today.
Sergio Fernández's Global and Dana Gentile's Collage will be on view during regular gallery hours, Wednesday through Sunday, 1:00-6:00pm and by appointment. For further information, please do not hesitate to contact the gallery at 212.796.7558 or email us at: krisgravesprojects@gmail.com
More information on the artists are available at www.sergioafernandez.com and www.danagentile.com