BiPOLAR /Journeys to the Ends of the Earth
Today, Sunday January 20, the exhibition BiPOLAR/ Journeys to the Ends of the Earth, opens in Albany. Curated and installed by the amazing Jeanne Flanagan, Saint Rose's long time gallery director, the show includes the work of Itty Neuhaus, Janet Biggs and Elise Engler. All three of us have made work as the result of journeys to the "top and bottom" of the Earth. Biggs has videos based on her time in the Arctic Circle, Neuhaus has a sculpture installation with videos as well as a large drawing/collage in the front window about Newfoundland, and my drawings paintings , books and video refer to time spent in Antarctica.
There will be a gallery reception on February 1 from 5 till 7 PM and then an artist's panel across the street at the Saint Joseph Auditorium, 985 Madison Avenue, at 7PM.
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http://www.strose.edu/about_saint_rose/massry_center_for_the_arts/esther_massry_gallery
The work I have in this show includes the large painted mural installation
Unpacking Antarctica with 30 small oil paint panels, the 10 -drawing series
Ninety-Degree Draft, and a related text drawing. In addition there are 2 accordion books drawn and painted onsite--one at Lake Hoare field camp in the Antarctic Dry Valleys and the other at research center, McMurdo Station. There are also 2 large gouache landscapes done onsite that have color pencil drawings of significant objects drawn on the surface.
Two color pencil scrolls -one of my suitcase contents going and the other of the return contents (including depictions of all art made while there) are also part of the show as is an 18 minute video edited from hours of footage taken while in Antarctica.
The work is the result of the two months spent in two month trip to Antarctica with the National Science
Foundation’s Antarctica Artist’s and Writers Program. I spent time at McMurdo Station, the penguin
colonies at Cape Royds and Cape Crozier, at the Dry Valley’s field camp at
Lake Hoare and and at the South Pole. Some of the art was made onsite and the rest since returning.
Here are some installation shots ---of the install, creating the giant mural (see--I am not only a miniaturist!) and the show--just before the installation was complete (I left before the extra garbage pails, carts, etc. were removed.
Saint Rose students helped with the install and I thank them--especially Kayley.
Work by Biggs and Neuhaus will be posted later....
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| Unpacking Antarctica , 11 x 14', house paint on wall with 30 oil panels on wood |
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| Projection of photo taken at Cape Royds, Ross Island, Antarctica |
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| Starting...... |
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| Continues.... |
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| Another angle |
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| pre -hanging --- book printed in Amsterdam top right |
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| Wall finished--paintings on the floor |
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| Art student/gallery assistant Kayley hangs last painting |
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Close-ups
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| My muse Gumby--of course--is on every journey.... |
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Everything I Took To Antarctica
2009
color pencil on paper
49 x 12" |
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Everything I Brought Back from Antarctica
2010
color pencil on paper
60 x 12"
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Everything I Brought Back from Antarctica
2010
color pencil on paper
60 x 12" |
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Ninety-Degree Draft Text Drawing
2012
gouache, color pencil, ink on paper
29.5 x 41.5" |
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Ninety-Degree Draft
2009-2011
gouache, color pencil on paper
29.5 x 41.5"
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Ninety-Degree Draft #5
2010
gouache, color pencil on paper
29.5 x 41.5"
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Lake Hoare Field Camp McMurdo Station Inventory
2010
gouache, color pencil on paper
29.5 x 41.5"
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Installation view with McMurdo Station Accordion Book
| Original gouache and color pencil book back to back with digital print |
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Installation with Lake Hoare Accordion Book
Original gouache and color pencil book back to back with digital print |
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| Installation |
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