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EAF08: 2008 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008 - MARCH 1, 2009
OPENING: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2008 / 2-6PM
Martin Basher Rajkamal Kahlon Chelsea Beck Jason Bailer Losh Kim Beck & Osman Khan Matthew Lusk Michael Berens Jong Il Ma Sari Carel Ted McCann
Adriana Farmiga Juniper Perlis Kimberley Hart Harriet Salmon
Long Island City, NY (June 2008) Socrates Sculpture Park is pleased to announce the opening of EAF08: 2008 Emerging Artist Fellowship Exhibition on Sunday, September 7, 2008 (2-6pm), featuring new works by the Parks current resident artists. This year, Socrates awarded fourteen fellowships to: Martin Basher, Chelsea Beck, Kim Beck & Osman Khan, Michael Berens, Sari Carel, Adriana Farmiga, Kimberley Hart, Rajkamal Kahlon, Jason Bailer Losh, Matthew Lusk, Jong Il Ma, Ted McCann, Juniper Perlis , and Harriet Salmon .
Fellowship artists and are awarded a $5,000 grant and a residency in the Parks outdoor studio and are also provided with technical support and access to tools, materials and equipment to facilitate the production of new sculptures and installations for exhibition in the Park. The fellows develop their projects throughout the summer in the open studio and on site in the landscape, offering visitors the opportunity to experience both the creation and presentation of their works. Representing a broad range of materials, working methods and subject matter, the diverse sculptural works in this exhibition are presented against the Parks spectacular waterfront view of the Manhattan skyline.
Emerging Artist Fellows are selected annually through an open application process and reviewed by a committee composed of the Parks Executive Director; past EAF recipients; established artists who have shown a commitment to mentoring and advocating for younger artists; as well a writers, gallerists, and curators who have special knowledge of contemporary art. The 2008 Advisory Committee members were: Alyson Baker, Executive Director, Socrates Sculpture Park; Hank Willis Thomas, 2006 Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Fellowship recipient; Kara Vander Weg, author and Director, James Cohan Gallery; Michael Lieberman, Harris Lieberman Gallery; Roxy Paine, artist; and Sylvia Chivaratanond, Curator, Art Salon, Art Basel Miami Beach 2008.
Socrates is undergoing a phased expansion of the EAF program and is incrimentally awarding two additional fellowships per year to reach twenty fellowships as an annual number upon the Parks twenty-fifth anniversary in 2011. Socrates has awarded fourteen fellowships in 2008, and will award sixteen fellowships in 2009, and eighteen in 2010. The official application to participate in Socrates Sculpture Parks 2009 exhibitions, including EAF09, will be available on the Parks website in September 2008 at www.socratessculpturepark.org.
For more information about the artists and works in the exhibition, including biographies, images and project descriptions, please contact Ellen Staller at 718-956-1819 x 12 or es@socratessculpturepark.org.
Socrates Sculpture Park is open 365 days a year from 10am to sunset and is located at the intersection of Broadway and Vernon Boulevard in Long Island City. By Subway take the N or W train to Broadway (Queens), walk 8 blocks west on Broadway to the intersection of Vernon Boulevard. For driving directions, visit our web site at www.socratessculpturepark.org.
This exhibition is made possible by the dedication and support of our volunteers and friends and by the generosity of: Lily Auchincloss Foundation, Inc. Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York The Charina Endowment Fund The Cowles Charitable Trust The Dedalus Foundation Mark di Suvero Foundation for Contemporary Arts Maxine and Stuart Frankel Foundation Hugh J. Freund Elizabeth Firestone Graham Foundation Agnes Gund Harpo Foundation Jerome Foundation The Peter T. Joseph Foundation Gabrielle and Herbert Kayden Richard and Ronay Menschel Ivana Mestrovic National Endowment for the Arts The New York Community Trust Ralph S. OConnor Brooke Kamin Rapaport and Richard A. Rapaport Ursula von Rydingsvard and Paul Greengard Rev. Alfred R. Shands III Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Smith Starry Night Fund of Tides Foundation The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts
This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Special thanks to the City of New York, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, Queens Borough President Helen M. Marshall, City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn, Assemblywoman Catherine Nolan, City Councilmember Eric Gioia, and the Department of Parks & Recreation, Commissioner Adrian Benepe.
Socrates Sculpture Park is grateful for the generosity of: Harold H. Anthony, Inc. Build it Green! NYC, a program of the Community Development Center John P. Corrieri, Inc. E&T Plastics R & R General Supply Co., Inc. Materials for the Arts Plant Specialists Spacetime C.C. York Ladder, Inc.
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OPEN SPACE
Socrates' ongoing series of individual and collaborative artist projects
SEPTEMBER 7, 2008 - MARCH 1, 2009
OPENING: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2008 / 2-6PM
FREE / RAIN OR SHINE
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova
An Inaccessible Gazebo, 2008
Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova’s An Inaccessible Gazebo consists of a white vinyl gazebo that the artist has customized to be completely closed off. The railings of the gazebo go all the way around, offering no means of entry. This inaccessibility creates a sharp contrast to the structure’s familiar purpose. The artist is interested in the alluring nature of the pristine white structure, as well as undermining the viewer’s understanding of suburban structures as they pertain to the ideas of shelter and security; the exploration of space and boundaries; and questioning the establishment of value in the practice of art. Leyden Rodriguez- Casanova was born in Havana, Cuba and lives and works in Miami, Florida. He has exhibited nationally in major cities including New York and Miami and internationally in Switzerland and Latin America.
Frances Trombly
Caution, 2008
Frances Trombly’s Caution consists of 250 linear feet of hand-dyed, hand-woven fabric on which the artist has embroidered the text “caution”/ “cuidado” to resemble actual caution tape. The artist often uses trompe l’oeil effects in her work to recreate mundane objects, making labor- intensive pieces through weaving, embroidery, cross- stitch and crochet. Her work questions the value of labor, and addresses issues of feminism, class and the American way of life. For her installation at Socrates, Trombly uses the meticulously crafted recreation for the same functional purpose as actual caution tape; as a barrier and a visual warning defining an otherwise undifferentiated space within the Park. The artist expects the piece to evolve over time and anticipates that audience interaction as well as the weather will cause the fabric to deteriorate just as real tape would. Frances Trombly was born in Miami, FL, where she currently lives and works. She has exhibited in major U.S. cities including New York, Miami and Los Angeles as well as internationally including London, Vienna and Latin America.
Barbara Westermann
Observatory, 2008
Barbara Westermann’s Observatory is a cluster of architectonic objects that suggest the ability to transmit and receive worldly and otherworldly music and/or information. They are objects of and for meditation and introspection. The sculptures reflect and absorb light and sound like a tree’s leaves; a conceptual, aural photosynthesis. All the “satellites” are sculptures made from molds of satellite dishes, molded and hewn away from a prefabricated look. The installation underscores relationships between exterior and interior architecture, public and private arenas. Barbara Westermann lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and has shown her work widely, including solo exhibitions at Brown University, Art Resources Transfer, the La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, and Real Art Ways. She has taught at the New School for Social Research in New York for many years, as well as studio courses at Providence
College, Roger Williams University, and the Rhode Island School of Design.A Broadway Billboard project by Robin Rhode - Download Press Release (.pdf)
BROADWAY BILLBOARD
Socrates' ongoing series of billboard projects, spanning the Park's main entrance on Vernon Boulevard and Broadway.
Robin Rhode
Promenade, 2008
Promenade is based on a collaboration between the artist and the famed pianist Leif Ove Andsnes in presenting Mussorgsky’s piano suite “Pictures at an Exhibition.” Rhode is creating the stage sets and interludes that will debut at Lincoln Center in November 2009.
Promenade muses on the nature of creation itself; Rhode’s protagonist acts as a master of cermonies, introducing a show- in this case animated drawings or forms- that then engulf him. The emcee becomes a character in his own painting, figuring out the density and geometry of the forms he has produced but cannot necessarily control. This animation is the first that Rhode has created for the project, presented as an introduction to one of the sections or “promenades” of Mussorgsky’s piano suite.
Robin Rhode was born in 1976 in Cape Town, South Africa. He currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Rhode’s work is rooted in performance and his interaction with public space through drawings and subsequent erasures on walls, buildings and streets. He utilizes photography and stop time animation as a means of documentation.
He has exhibited extensively in the U.S. and abroad including Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, New York; the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; and the South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.
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