Gallery Exhibits March 18 - May 1
Release Date: 3/2/2010. Expired: 5/1/2010
The Center is excited to feature an entire semester mostly dedicated to the art of installation. Installation art is a contemporary genre of site-specific, 3D works designed to transform the perception of a space. The genre incorporates a broad range of everyday and natural materials, often chosen for their evocative qualities, as well as new media such as video, sound, and performance. Many installations are site-specific in that they are designed to only exist in the space for which they were created.
March 18th-May 1st
Lecture: March 18th, 5-6pm
Opening: March 18th, 6-7:30pm
Visual Art Gallery
Black and Jones: 2001: retold
The 1968 film, 2001, A Space Odyssey, by director Stanley Kubrick continues to resonate through popular and high culture today such as references to the computer HAL featured in commercials and leading symphonies performing Space Odyssey concerts. Kubrick’s landmark film demands rethinking every decade. In this installation, Black and Jones use images and audio to retell the movie through the eyes of others.
Kell Black was a founding member of Sluggo, a post-punk band in Boston in the early 80s. He was also the keyboard player for The TLC Band, a Latin/reggae/Creole group. In 2002 he composed a solo piano soundtrack for W. F. Murnau’s 1922 film, Nosferatu, the first of many screen adaptations of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Mr. Black holds a BA in music and German from the State University of New York, College at Fredonia, and he studied harpsichord and Baroque performance practice at the Wiener Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria. He also holds an MFA in sculpture and drawing from the University of Connecticut, Storrs. He is a Professor of Art at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville, Tennessee. Mr. Black has exhibited widely across the United States and in Switzerland, and he was also awarded an NEA Individual Artist’s Grant. His work will be featured in a group exhibition in 2008 at the Frist Center in Nashville. Barry Jones is a digital video and sound artist with far ranging interests in music, the history of film, and new technologies. He earned his BFA in photography at Austin Peay State University, and his MFA in 3d studies at the University of South Carolina. He is nationally and internationally known for his video installations, and has exhibited works at SPACElab in Cleveland, Ohio, at the Arlington Arts Center in Arlington, Virginia, and in Istanbul, Turkey, Sao Paulo, Brazil, and Madrid, Spain. On a more local level, he was recently featured at the Brooks Museum in Memphis, and he has two digital works in the permanent art base collection of the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s new media branch, Rhizome. Mr. Jones is an associate professor at Austin Peay State University. He lives in Clarksville with his wife, Jennifer, and their three children, Marlena, Aidan and Hope. He also performs in the vj duo [ fladry + jones ].
East Wing Gallery
Charles Clary: Double Diddle Escapades
Clary uses paper to create a world of fiction that challenges the viewer to suspend disbelief and venture into a fabricated reality. By layering the paper he builds intriguing land formations that support mechanical and organic life forms. These strange landmasses contaminate the surfaces they inhabit with their energy transforming the space into a suitable living environment.
Charles Clary was born in 1980 in Morristown, Tennessee. He received his BFA in painting, with honors, from Middle Tennessee State University and his MFA from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah Georgia. Charles will be featured in the February issue of WIRED Magazine. He recently had a solo exhibition at Gallerie EVOLUTION-Pierre Cardin in Paris France, completed a painting assistantship with Joe Amrhein of Pierogi Gallery in Brooklyn NYC, and had work acquired by fashion designer Pierre Cardin. Charles has exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally in numerous solo and group shows and currently resides and teaches in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Charles is currently represented by Rymer Gallery in Nashville, TN.
North Wing Gallery
Charmaine Felix-Meyer: Un-vironemnt I
This Los Angeles based artist uses drywall to create a series of environments that explore imagined and inhabited spaces. For her most recent exhibition (at JAUS, Los Angeles, 2009) she installed cut and carved drywall drawings of the architectural elements of her living room in the gallery--complete with door, windows, fireplace, mantle and wall heater. The piece, entitled ALL NEW CONSTRUCTION! explores the line between fantasy and reality, drawing and sculpture, two-dimensional and three-dimensional
spaces. For this project, made specifically for the site in Tennessee, Un-vironemnt I, Felix-Meyer will create an installation that navigates the divide between real and imagined, between seeing and knowing.
Charmaine Felix-Meyer received her MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts (2009) and her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (2000). Informed by psychoanalysis and feminism, her work is a material investigation of the domestic space as a site for construction, reflection and inscription. Since 2002 Felix-Meyer has been a member of the California Psychoanalytic Circle of the Freudian School of Québec. She recently presented a paper entitled “Representation, Re-construction and the Elusive Object of Art” at the “Clinical Days ’09: A Seminar of Lacanian Psychoanalytic Teaching and Cases” organized by the California Psychoanalytic Circle and the Freudian School of Québec (Golden Gate University, San Francisco, March 2009). A revised section of her thesis paper “Sums of Parts: Subjectivity, Femininity and the Role of the Object” will be published in the forthcoming issue of (a): the journal of culture and the unconscious. Recent exhibitions include proVisional art, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (October ‘09); Wish You Were Here 8, A.I.R., NYC (June ‘09) and Double Negatives, MFA thesis show at Vermont College of Fine Arts, Montpelier, VT (February 09). Felix-Meyer will be creating a room installation for the group exhibition Filofile: 7 Post-Pfeiffer Filipinos from SoCal, JAUS, Los Angeles, (November 2009) and has been invited to participate in a collaborative installation this winter at the University of Washington’s Henry Art Museum, Seattle.
Charmaine Felix-Meyer’s exhibition has been made possible with the help of the Comfort Inn in Dickson, TN and Watkins College of Art & Design.
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