In Gallery 2D: Not by day or night, nor indoors or outdoors, nor riding or walking, nor clothed or naked but at dusk, wrapped in a net, with one foot on a cauldron and one on a goat.
Work by Chelsea Tonelli Knight, Elise Rasmussen and Carrie Schneider.
Opening Reception: Friday, November 30, 2007, 6:00 – 9:00 PM On View: December 1 - 29, 2007. Closed December 26 and 27 for the holidays
ThreeWalls is pleased to present at dusk an exhibition of new work by Chelsea Tonelli Knight, Elise Rasmussen and Carrie Schneider that hovers at the in-between.
Resisting the inclination to locate or inscribe meaning, Knight, Rasmussen and Schneider explore the thresholds of living – those transitional spaces and there afterward, characterized by ambiguity, the indeterminate and disorientation – through photography, video and installation. Although these limitable moments might be described traditionally as ‘rites of passage’, Knight, Rasmussen and Schneider traverse the more uncomfortable, psychological and mystical aspects of the in-between, where ‘passage’ is uncertain or unresolved.
Chelsea Knight explores ideas of self-imposed isolation, interrogation and captivity in a series of videos shot from performances made in an abandoned house. Re-projected inside a small free-standing room, the work recreates and re-projects the idea of interior, psychological space through a re-containment of the viewer. Elise Rasmussen’s work responds to Stendhal syndrome, that is, sensory overload that results in psychosis, alongside work made in reaction to Stendhal’s writings On Love: a Salzburg bough of crystallized salt, which lead to Stendhal’s term ‘crystallization’ as a metaphorical term for falling in love. Shooting while in residency in at Skowhegan, Carrie Schneider’s photographs capture moments of rest and repose. Through depictions of the artist in their studio or at rest in a field, these photos serve to both consider the romantic tradition of the studio and those moments between action and reaction which Schneider’s former advisor Marjetica Potrc, described as having captured the ‘post-hysterical moment.’
Knight received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. She recently completed a Fulbright Fellowship to Italy where the work for At Dusk was shot. Her work has been shown at the 10th International Istanbul Biennial and in upcoming exhibitions at the Chicago Cultural Center and the Werkschauhalle Gallery in Leipzig, Germany. Rasmussen received her MFA in 2007 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She has exhibited at galleries in Canada and the United States, and recently completed a residency in Salzburg, Austria as a Hayward Fellow. Carrie Schneider earned her BFA rom Carnegie Mellon University in 2001 and her MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2007. Upon graduating, Carrie attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and is currently on a Fulbright Fellowship to the Kuvataideakatemia (Academy of Fine Arts) in Helsinki, Finland.
A small publication will accompany the exhibition with an essay by ThreeWalls curator, Shannon Stratton.
Ahoy! ThreeWalls Presents:
Annual Fundraiser and Holiday Party Saturday December 15, 2007 8:00 PM-12:00 AM
Join us, for steins of Grog and get loaded to the gunwales! Shiver me Timbers! Its a Pirate Holiday Party!
Entertainment includes music by DJ Mr. E, a Hidden Treasure Photo Booth with Pirate Santa, Duncan MacKenzie. Ross Moreno will be up to no good, and there will be fortunetellers encouraging you to drink up, have fun, and support your favorite artist residency. Best costume gets a prize!
Admission is to the event is FREE. Collectable Chris Millar and Frank Haines artist-editioned beer steins can be purchased for an all-you-can-drink $25. Otherwise beer is $5 and mulled wine will be $3.
Silent auction will close at 10:30 PM (cash or check due that night) and includes art by, Miguel Cortes, Elise Rasmussen, Chelsea Tonelli Knight, Bernard Williams, Ann Toebbe, Lisa Boumstein-Smalley, Marc Hauser, Scott Anderson, Amy Mayfield, Elizabeth Lopez, Vincent Como, Heather Mekkelson, Barbara Koenen and more.
