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Past Exhibition |
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Inner Garden
Curators: Christine Callahan & Veronica Cross |
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Artists:
Gabrielle Auerbach, Jen DeNike, Chris Jahncke, Douglas Kelley, Jen Kim,
Dave Manilow, Arthur Marks, Robert O'Connor, Niamh O'Malley
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| Image: Arthur Marks, Atlantic Province, 2004, C-print |
On view from:
April 7 to May 21, 2005
Opening Reception:
Thursday, April 7, 2005, 6-8pm
Curators and Artists :
Saturday, May 7, 2005, 6-8pm
Venue:
Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery, 555 Broadway,
Basement Floor,New York, NY 10012
[Between Prince/Spring Sts.]
Gallery
Hours:
Tuesday through Saturday, 12- 6 p.m.
Closed on Sundays, Mondays.
Admission Policy:
Unless otherwise noted, all events are free and open to the public.
ISE CULTURAL FOUNDATION is pleased to present the exhibition, Inner Garden. The exhibition
surveys environments both figurative and physical. Each artist included has a particular approach to constructing “
space” that serves as retreat or connecting point. As a response to increased political turmoil, burgeoning industry
and personal alienation, it is natural to turn inward to reevaluate one’s place in the world. The inner garden
may be understood as the territory in which one seeks out grace, collective experience, the spiritual and the psychedelic.
The Inner Garden artists utilize a wide variety of media in their work. Gabrielle Auerbach's works on paper are inhabited by
biomorphic abstractions, birds, planets and overlaid networks of cut paper. In Jen DeNike's photography we discover the young
male in Eden-like surroundings enacting ritual or idealized behavior. The delicate drawings and paintings of Chris Jahncke are
often fueled by a sense of humor, escapism, group experience and synchronicity. In the video works of Douglas Kelley, there is
an obsession with things spherical in terms of form and cyclically harmonizing ideas set to an intricate and funky soundtrack.
The playful, multicolored installations of artist Jen Kim integrate mass-produced items as well as painting and drawing to create
her own sanctuary. David Manilow's painted and manipulated textiles refer to both Color Field painting and to tie-dyed t-shirts
using commercially printed material. The photography of Arthur Marks reverently captures landscapes and industrial town scenes
in an attempt to focus on their similarities. Photographer Robert O'Connor offers a glimpse into a nighttime world populated by
factories, neon and other practical monuments in environs deliberately devoid of humanity. NiamhO'Malley merges modes of
representation in technique and content in her work that layers kinetic video over static painting.
In Inner Garden psychic frontiers are advanced and ideals of beauty reconsidered; a desire for symbolic experience is explored.
This exhibition is part of the ISE Cultural Foundation's Program for Emerging Curators, Please contact Ise Cultural Foundation Gallery for further information.
About the curator:
Christine Callahan currently teaches at The New School University and was the founder and director of the photography
lecture series "The Forum". She has been exhibiting her own work and organizing shows since 1997. In October 2005 a solo exhibit
of her photographs will appear at Capsule Gallery.
Veronica Cross has been exhibiting her own work and organizing shows as well since 1997. She has developed events that
encourage the cross-pollination between media such as music performance and visual arts. A solo show of her work will be
installed at Capsule Gallery in October 2005.
Inner Garden is the sixth collaborative curatorial project
from Christine Callahan and Veronica Cross. |
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